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NextDNS CLI not reporting hostname

I installed NextDNS CLI on Ubuntu and pointed all my clients at it. I see in the logs it is not reporting the hostname but is reporting Device #xxxx

 

How do I get this to populate the hostname of the actual device? 

I did select "report hostnames" and "act as a router" during setup

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    • tobycth3
    • 3 yrs ago
    • Reported - view

    Did a bit of troubleshooting and digging and figured out how to resolve this. In my case my DHCP server is located on my router, but the NextDNS CLI is running on a Ubuntu VM. I had to make a few changes to the nextdns.conf so it could look up the DHCP hostnames against my router. 

    sudo vi nextdns.conf

discovery-dns 192.168.X.X

    (192.168.X.X = Router / DHCP host IP)

     

    I also changed  

    listen 127.0.0.1:53

    to 

    listen 192.168.X.X:53

    (192.168.X.X:53 = NextDNS CLI host IP)

    • katchj
    • 3 yrs ago
    • Reported - view

    I tried this but nextdns wouldn't start (running nextdns client on debian based distro. router for local network is 10.0.0.1 )  

    Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel systemd[1]: Started NextDNS DNS53 to DoH proxy..
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel nextdns[227320]: Starting NextDNS 1.10.1/linux on 10.0.0.1:53
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel nextdns[227320]: Starting mDNS discovery
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel nextdns[227320]: Listening on TCP/10.0.0.1:53
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel nextdns[227320]: Listening on UDP/10.0.0.1:53
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel nextdns[227320]: Startup failed: proxy: tcp: listen tcp 10.0.0.1:53: bind: cannot assign requested address
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel nextdns[227320]: Error: proxy: tcp: listen tcp 10.0.0.1:53: bind: cannot assign requested address
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel systemd[1]: nextdns.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 09 11:54:03 kdel systemd[1]: nextdns.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


     

    • katchj
    • 3 yrs ago
    • Reported - view

    I decided to use hosts file instead for now but still would like to be able to use this method if possible

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