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Rate-limiting on DNS lookups?

I'm evaluating NextDNS for a possible educational campus purchase. So far, love the product. I purchased the standard package for testing. Few questions:…

Set up help

Idk what anything means. Help?

"Not Running" when deployed via Jamf

We're currently evaluating NextDNS within our organisation and ran into issues when deploying the profile generated from https://apple.nextdns.io/ via our MDM solution, Jamf.…

Flickr access

Hi, I use flickr.com which works on all my devices at home on WiFi but for some reason I can’t get access to flickr on my iPhone when I’m on 5G, am I missing something ? Tony

How to switch for lowest ping Indian dns server ?

I have purchased the pro plan for a month to try it out in India. But the problem after setting the dns server address provided from nextdns in router level,…

Wifi shows no connection when using NextDNS in Private DNS in Android

Hi there, Our company has had a network upgrade today and this somehow broke my ability to connect to the internet on my phone. Whenever I connect to our company's wifi, it shows no internet.…

Internet Traffic Encryption

Although most traffic in an Android device requires a DNS, not all of them do. The queries that do require the DNS, does get encrypted by NextDns . But,…

Not seeing devices in analytis - OPNsense

I only see "Unidentified Devices" in my analytics. I am running the CLI on my OPNsense router. I am using the NextDNS IPs in my general DNS Server settings.…

UDM Pro Install Issues

I am getting the following errors and need help resolving it please. I do not have IPV6 enabled on the UDM Pro. I have restarted NextDNS and the UDM Pro several times with now luck # sudo nextdns…

Bypass Private DNS Mode

If I set up nextdns on my son's mobile phone, he can easily bypass it by simply deleting it again or disabling private mode. How can I secure the phone so that he cannot delete the private dns mode?

UDMP SE 2.x firmware

The new UDMPSE runs on Debian now and all the udms are likely going to be updated to run unifios/Debian and ditch ubios. I tried to install the cli but it’s throwing errors because my udmpse dnsmasq…

Is there a manner to tag IoT devices, printers etc?

Hi, About 70% of the traffic on my network falls under the "Unidentified devices" I have installed the NextDns software on laptop, desktop, phone etc where it is easy.…

no DoH if using Linked IP DNS servers?

is this the expected behaviour? I added the 2 IP4 DNS servers and the logs show no encrypted DNS. Does this tell me I can't get DoH this way?

300.000 lookups in a month for two people?

I just managed to exceed 300K lookups. It is just my girlfriend and I in the apartment. My question is if this is a reasonable amount for two people, or if I should look for an over eager device…

Don't remember having account, want a refund.

Hi NextDNS, I already email you about this problems, perhaps posting it here will get faster responses from you. Today I receive a receipt from paypal for automatic payment to you.…

DNSSEC and blocked domains

I tried to use NextDNS with DNSSEC configured on my Raspi with dnsmasq as local cache and for resolving local IPs. When i try to resolve a domain, that is blocked by NextDNS and forwarding 0.0.0.…

Device Name for Whole Network

Is it possible give a whole network a device name, rather than pass through every individual device on the network. Would be good to be able to manually set it in the config file if possible.

50ms difference between IPv4 and IPv6 connection on the same region server

Hello! I have a problem to report: in the northeast region of Brazil, nextdns has 2 low-latency servers located in Fortaleza, CE. The problem is that the server configured for IPv4 has a latency…

Works on Windows 10 client but not on OpenWrt 19.07.7 router

Sun Jul 18 06:24:48 2021 daemon.warn nextdns[28183]: Endpoint failed: https://dns.nextdns.io#45.114.118.156,34.101.84.129: roundtrip: context deadline exceeded OpenWrt: https://nextdns.…

Slow Internet speed

I have 8 blocklist in nextDns profile and it seems pages are loading a bit slower. could this be a reason for the slowness? drop-downs in web pages are opening very slowly can more blocklist make…

More than one Linked IP Addresses

Is it possible to link more than 1 IP Addresses. I have multiple locations with static IP's

Discord blocked By Social Networks but also by Websites, Apps and Games - conflict of rules

I have block Social Networks turn on AND I have Discord allowed in Websites, Apps, and Games during certain hours. This means that even if Discord is allowed it actually remains blocked because…

Auto update NextDNS CLI Client ?

Anyone knows if there is a way to auto update the client ? Using Debian Based Distribution or AsusMerlin's

Non-ios Device Accessing iOS.dns.nextdns.io

One of my DirecTV receivers uploaded ~3MB to ios.dns.nextdns.io to TCP Port 80. 1. Why is a non-ios Device Accessing this url? 2. Why is it uploading data at all? 3. Why is it using port 80? 4.…

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