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pfSense doesn't send client hostnames to NextDNS

Hey Everyone,

I've set up a pfSense firewall/router and enabled NextDNS on it using the commands provided in the setup page, however no clients are recognized in NextDNS.  All queries from the pfSense box are labelled under a single "unidentified clients" name.  Other community threads about pfSense indicates it SHOULD be sending client names, so I'm not sure if there's a setting somewhere that enables forwarding client names to upstream DNS servers, or if I'm just missing something elsewhere.

Any help is appreciated.  I'm a technical person, so feel free to be technical with me.  I'll tell you if I'm unsure about anything.

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    • losnad
    • 2 yrs ago
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    To have clients recognized you need this https://nextdns.io/cli

      • Jaron_Davis
      • 2 yrs ago
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      losnad Thanks for the information, I'm going to look into this.

      • Jaron_Davis
      • 2 yrs ago
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      losnad I'm not sure if you may be able to help, but for some reason after installing, the service won't stay running.  When I start it, it runs for about a minute, then automatically stops.

       

      Logs show this:

      Jan 20 13:17:48 pfsense nextdns[35720]: Starting NextDNS 1.37.7/freebsd on :53
      Jan 20 13:17:48 pfsense nextdns[35720]: Starting mDNS discovery
      Jan 20 13:17:48 pfsense nextdns[35720]: Listening on TCP/:53
      Jan 20 13:17:48 pfsense nextdns[35720]: Listening on UDP/:53
      Jan 20 13:17:48 pfsense nextdns[35720]: Startup failed: proxy: tcp: listen tcp                 :53: bind: address already in use

      • Jaron_Davis
      • 2 yrs ago
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      Jaron Davis Disregard, I figured it out.  I had to turn off the DNS Resolver in pfSense and let NextDNS CLI take over.

    • jade_light
    • 2 yrs ago
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    I'm getting only 3 devices' names.  I can see the queries from the different devices but names are not coming.  If I turn off the DNS Resolver in pfSense, I'll get dns over tls. Thank you

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