Hi guys for those of you that use pi-hole (or similar solutions like adguard home, etc) and wireguard how far away can you be from your wireguard/pi-hole server before latency becomes a major issue?
Also on a side note how many milliseconds of latency would you guys consider to be to slow?
Edit I meant dns latency sorry for not mentioning
I have Wireguard and I forward DNS and my internal traffic from my phone over the VPN to my pi-hole at home. All other traffic goes directly over the Internet, not the VPN. So that means only DNS encounters higher latency.
However, because a lot of companies do DNS based geo load balancing that means even if I’m on the east coast all my traffic gets sent to the West Coast because my DNS server is located there. That right there has the biggest impact on latency.
It’s tolerable on the same continent, but once I start getting into other continents then it gets a bit slow.
Interesting I always assumed they used ip not dns for geo locating cdns.
There’s two main ways of doing geo-based load balancing:
Of course, this doesn’t matter for companies that only have one data center.