Netflix streaming from US server?

[feo]

Use 9.9.9.11

Then see here as to why…

Apple TV buffering

If you get a chance can you try a browser and see if it's still buffering? We are still waiting for our machines to arrive but as mentioned traffic should be okay via Akamai. I have been away for few weeks got back this week and I noticed all of sudden App store and Apple TV flying faster than...

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Useful!

So I can just set that particular Quad 9 DNS as the upstream server in Pihole, yeah?

But then what happens with my second pihole that's using unbound in recursive mode?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Useful!

So I can just set that particular Quad 9 DNS as the upstream server in Pihole, yeah?

But then what happens with my second pihole that's using unbound in recursive mode?

Yeah.

And throw the second one in the bin…I’m not sure how you are even making that work, you should only have one on your network.

How do devices even know how to use which one when?

 

[feo]

Yeah.

And throw the second one in the bin…I’m not sure how you are even making that work, you should only have one on your network.

How do devices even know how to use which one when?

DHCP serves 2 pihole addresses to all clients. So they're aware of both and use the primary by default. If that goes down, they fallback to secondary.

But it's also client specific too I believe, some of them don't always treat the 2 DNS as primary/secondary, maybe round robin or something.

 

[SauRoNZA]

DHCP serves 2 pihole addresses to all clients. So they're aware of both and use the primary by default. If that goes down, they fallback to secondary.

But it's also client specific too I believe, some of them don't always treat the 2 DNS as primary/secondary, maybe round robin or something.

For that very reason where you don’t know what it does whether failover or round Robin is why I wouldn’t bother.

You can define the rules per client surely by now in PiHole? I can do that with AdGuard.

 

[feo]

For that very reason where you don’t know what it does whether failover or round Robin is why I wouldn’t bother.

You can define the rules per client surely by now in PiHole? I can do that with AdGuard.

I initially planned to have both setup identically I.e both using unbound in recursive mode. But I think I ran into issues on the one pihole so I just pointed it to CloudFlare as upstream DNS.

I haven't tinkered much but you can define whether adblocking is active for specific clients or groups of clients.

 

[feo]

Some feedback, but no improvement after changing DNS servers.

Tried both quad9 (9.9.9.11) and also the Vox DNS servers and it still can't even stream more than 480p (stream info on Netflix shows like 0.2Mbps).

Earlier today, I tried my backup WAN connection on Vodacom (which itself can be pretty flakey) and it ramped up to 2160p (4K) pretty fast and the stream info was showing a bitrate of >10Mbps. This was with no change to DNS or anything.

To me, that points to an issue with the main WAN connection i.e. Vox. The problem now is finding someone that's not just going to give me a BS generic answer like "reboot your router and ONT".

@mubz what setting did Vox try changing on your router?

Also, another thing: on fast.com, What are these servers exactly? Is that telling you where Netflix content will be served from?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Some feedback, but no improvement after changing DNS servers.

Tried both quad9 (9.9.9.11) and also the Vox DNS servers and it still can't even stream more than 480p (stream info on Netflix shows like 0.2Mbps).

Earlier today, I tried my backup WAN connection on Vodacom (which itself can be pretty flakey) and it ramped up to 2160p (4K) pretty fast and the stream info was showing a bitrate of >10Mbps. This was with no change to DNS or anything.

To me, that points to an issue with the main WAN connection i.e. Vox. The problem now is finding someone that's not just going to give me a BS generic answer like "reboot your router and ONT".

@mubz what setting did Vox try changing on your router?

Also, another thing: on fast.com, What are these servers exactly? Is that telling you where Netflix content will be served from?

Could it be cached by the PiHole still? Have you rebooted that after the change?

Vodacom connection is not going through the PiHole I take it?

Considered bypassing the PiHole completely and putting the Quad9 9.9.9.11 address directly in the client device?

 

[feo]

Could it be cached by the PiHole still? Have you rebooted that after the change?

Vodacom connection is not going through the PiHole I take it?

Considered bypassing the PiHole completely and putting the Quad9 9.9.9.11 address directly in the client device?

Didn't reboot the pihole, no.

In my mind, switching to Vodacom just changes the outgoing WAN to the internet, the router is still telling clients to use the Pihole for DNS, and still use CloudFlare as upstream DNS if the Pihole doesn't have it in cache.

I probably could try bypassing Pihole on another device yeah. Because I have this streaming issue on all my devices, PC, phone, TV, everywhere.

But why would the issue disappear as soon as I switch to Vodacom without changing any DNS related stuff?

 

[cavedog]

I'm pretty sure Vox has a Netflix appliances.

With Netflix you need to announce the prefixes to the caches and if you don't have caches you need to either have a PNI or I think they peer with the route servers if not just setup a bgp session. I'm 100% sure Vox has all of the above so it's just a misconfig from them that Netflix isn't getting the prefix from them either at NAP,INX or their caches.

 

[feo]

I'm pretty sure Vox has a Netflix appliances.

With Netflix you need to announce the prefixes to the caches and if you don't have caches you need to either have a PNI or I think they peer with the route servers if not just setup a bgp session. I'm 100% sure Vox has all of the above so it's just a misconfig from them that Netflix isn't getting the prefix from them either at NAP,INX or their caches.

What's the best way to get it corrected? Vox's support is terrible, it's so hard to actually find someone who knows what they're talking about. And to make it worse, they have no forum rep.

 

[cavedog]

What's the best way to get it corrected? Vox's support is terrible, it's so hard to actually find someone who knows what they're talking about. And to make it worse, they have no forum rep.

Dropped you a pm with something to try. I would suggest sending your IP as well for them to check the announcements of that range.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Didn't reboot the pihole, no.

In my mind, switching to Vodacom just changes the outgoing WAN to the internet, the router is still telling clients to use the Pihole for DNS, and still use CloudFlare as upstream DNS if the Pihole doesn't have it in cache.

I probably could try bypassing Pihole on another device yeah. Because I have this streaming issue on all my devices, PC, phone, TV, everywhere.

But why would the issue disappear as soon as I switch to Vodacom without changing any DNS related stuff?

Routing is going to be different from one ISP to another even with the same DNS.