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DanR said:
If you click the red icon in the UL corner of DNSB's main window, and get the main drop down menu, what do you see for the DOT protocol? Enabled or disabled? If it is not enabled then DNSB wile not benchmark DOT resolvers.
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Sorry for the delay.

Yes I checked in the system menu and enable DoT tests is enabled, but every DoT server is red after the inital startup checks, this is with both with the NextDNS service enabled or disabled. It is as if discussed further up, either the compatibility layer can't operate with DoT or Ubuntu can't. I have checked and Ubuntu does support it if setup in the resolv file, but that is just for the DNS settings you are using. It needs to be available system wide and maybe it is not.

Gemini seems to suggest I can force NextDNS to use DoT instead of DoH if I want to, but, I don't think this will help this particular issue, as again, it will just be my localhost service using DoT.

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GreenWine said:
DoT tests is enabled
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I don't think DNS over TLS is actually a well used protocol. DNS over HTTPS came along after, and seems to have the lions share of the "secure DNS" mind share. Part of the issue is probably what you're running into... there appear to be so many different implementations of TLS in different levels of support on different versions of Windows (and Windows emulation like WINE and Proton) that it makes it hard to ensure the necessary functionality is going to be present. I get where you might want to see this capability working in DNSB, but I would recommend against spending much time trying to make it work when it's probably not going to reward you with results to care about.
 
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PHolder said:
I don't think DNS over TLS is actually a well used protocol. DNS over HTTPS came along after, and seems to have the lions share of the "secure DNS" mind share. Part of the issue is probably what you're running into... there appear to be so many different implementations of TLS in different levels of support on different versions of Windows (and Windows emulation like WINE and Proton) that it makes it hard to ensure the necessary functionality is going to be present. I get where you might want to see this capability working in DNSB, but I would recommend against spending much time trying to make it work when it's probably not going to reward you with results to care about.
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DoH is fine for me, I just would like to see the full suite of tests running on Linux, I'm still not sure if anyone has so far.
 
@GreenWine "... DoH is fine for me, I just would like to see the full suite of tests running on Linux, I'm still not sure if anyone has so far ..."

Compare to one of my recent DNSBench 2 tests under Windows 7:

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Messy, but I suppose this is what you are looking for.
 
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