NextDNS' zepto-sel has been quite unstable since late March, and I was considering moving away from them as my annual plan was due to renewal within 2 weeks.
I ultimately decided to renew nextDNS yearly plan, but logging what I want just because… 'why not'.
hard requirement
- Server in KR (submarine cables can be even more unstable. Especially I don't really like my traffic reaching HKG, given now HKG is de facto colony of CCP, and I have serious reasons to believe CCP wants to talk to me behind bars if they have chance.)
- Multiple profiles (I have multiple networks, for example one for my home network, another for rest of my family members', yet another for servers, and something else.)
- ability to use Unicode for device name (while I'm writing this in English, English is just a 'secondary language' and canonical selection is Korean.)
- as a bare minimum, have YousList in their adblock selection (KR specific list)
- Statistics and log retentions. I like the nice graphs and pie charts, so no-logging public DNS resolvers are out here. (And logs are frequent discovery method for digging new host to block, for example self-hosted matomo instances of not-that-popular services)
- No self-hosting. While I do self-hosting (for example, this site) I am not really good at keeping 9-levels of uptime required for critical infra, and I don't want to add one more systems to apply security patch.)
- something more but I'm phone now…
Where alternatives failed
- ControlD: no server in KR, IIRC it cannot set unicode device name.
- AdGuard DNS: no server in KR, I don't recall if I can set unicode device name.
- Their self-host software is out because no-self-host.
- Cloudflare Gateway: lack of YousList, and I think this also cannot set unicode device name… and their target audience is primarily business and I'd be paying too much for less…
