Not using DNS forwarding for greater privacy and security
DNS is a key part of the Internet as we know it. We rely on DNS information everyday. Every time you enter URL into your browser or send an e-mail, you rely on some DNS resolver. Typically, those DNS resolvers are provided to you by your ISP. But do you realise how much power he has over you that way? He can log every server you are visiting regardless of whether you use encrypted connection. But he can do even more - he can forge the entries and send you to a different server than you were asking for. In some countries he is even obliged to do so by law for some specific servers.
Luckily for our users, Turris routers come equipped with their own resolver, so you don't have to trust and depend on your ISP. Turris routers use your ISPs DNS servers by default if they work good enough - there is a check for it in first run wizard. Reasoning behind that is that we found out that some ISPs are doing sometimes quite crazy stuff. Some are blocking DNS traffic that doesn't go to their resolvers. Some of them are injecting entries to redirect you …