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Public WiFis / Airplane WiFi / Hotel WiFis / Captive Portal WiFis

Couldn't find a clear solution to this, but when connecting to a public wifi or anything that has a captive portal, NextDNS will make connecting to that WiFi impossible, any site (neverssl.com) will just load enlessly. I have to go into the app and whitelist that network for the captive portal to show up and let me login

DNS Rebinding Protection is disabled already. Using the NextDNS app on my iOS devices 

Is there no good way to have NextDNS play nicely with those networks? It's a reason why I can't use the configuration profiles, because without a quick way to switch NextDNS off, I wouldn't be able to use the majority of public wifis that rely on captive portals 

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    • Ugendar_V
    • 2 yrs ago
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    Hi NextDNS support team, 

    can anyone respond on this Captive portal issue. facing lots of issue with client's wifi. Everytime i have to stop the service and let them connect to the wifi and then again turn on the service

      • Junaid_Ahmed
      • 1 yr ago
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      cmd

    • Paul_Riverside
    • 2 yrs ago
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    Any updates? I have this same issue on most public wifi that requires a sign-in agreement. I have also tried switching to auto DNS setting to sign in, and then switching back to NextDNS afterwards, but this causes the Internet connection to be lost.

    • BigDargon
    • 2 yrs ago
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    If you're using an iOS profile, follow these steps:
    - Access https://apple.nextdns.io/
    - Click More options
    - In the Excluded Domains, enter the domain captive.apple.com
    - Then download the new profile

      • Paul_Riverside
      • 2 yrs ago
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      BigDargon I'm using an Android device, is there a similar method that will work? Pixel 3 

      • BigDargon
      • 2 yrs ago
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      Paul Riverside Private DNS does not support Domain Exclusions :(

      • GuitarMatch
      • 2 yrs ago
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      Paul Riverside Not at all what BigDargon suggested, but on Android I installed https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jpwolfso.privdnsqt/ ("Private DNS Quick Tile") and added it to the quick settings menu. Allows me to quickly turn it on and off when I need to

      • Eric.9
      • 1 yr ago
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      Does this also need to be performed for macOS devices?

      • BigDargon
      • 1 yr ago
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       The profile applies to both iOS/iPadOS/MacOS so I think you should do the same on Mac OS.

      • TheAliDev
      • 1 yr ago
      • Reported - view

      but it has a allow list 

    • Dhrions
    • 1 yr ago
    • Reported - view

    Is the problem solved ? I've the same problem with a Linux laptop and an Android smartphone.

      • Martheen
      • 1 yr ago
      • Reported - view

       On Android use the Private DNS tile to toggle it off temporarily, on Linux write a script to temporarily switch the DNS setting. 

      • Dhrions
      • 1 yr ago
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      Thanks. It's what I do but I look for an automatic solution.

    • Ceason
    • 8 mths ago
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    similar issue here. Have people wfh and roaming, that are not able to connect, captive portal windows/pop up does not show etc. Making things worse, they don't have admin rights on their accounts, so toggle on/off the app is not an option.

    Any other workarounds/whitelist etc most welcome

      • Mullbery
      • 6 mths ago
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      Control D released a solution for this in their ctrld DNS daemon. Works automatically and you dont need to do anything. Just tested it and it works.

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