Bad Ping times when using Adgurd with HA

HI All

So, I have been investigating for a while, why I am getting some bad ping times. I migrated to a new host and noticed that the ping times went from about 600ms to about 300ms. Still quite slow.

So, I had a look at my HA DNS, and it was set to go to my ad guard on the same server (so 192.168.1.10) plus 8.8.8.8

However, once I changed it to just use 8.8.8.8 the pings times improved dramatically (between 12-24ms) I left it for a day, and it stayed in that ping range

So, to prove my point, I added the IP back again, and did a manual speed test, and it went back to around 300ms .

So, my question is there a way to configure DNS to use ad guard, should I use 127.0.0.1 instead. I want all my devices on my network to be going via Ad guard

Thanks