Ubiquiti Router DNS Stamp
Ubiquiti just released a feature on their router allowing the use of Custom Secure DNS. What DNS Stamp does NextDNS use? What should I enter into that field? I have a paid NextDNS account.
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I’d never heard of dns stamp until now. A quick search reveals
what it is: https://dnscrypt.info/stamps-specifications/
along with an easy to use interface to create your own stamp for the dns protocol and server of your choice
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Ok so I followed this website with the settings I think it wants (nobody can tell me for sure) and it did not work. I had to login to the UniFi portal with an IP to get back in as it brought down the entire network.
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Unify doesn’t just have a place to enter the DOH address? Seems that would be much simpler. I think the stamp is intended for a service to give out to users rather than have users try to figure it out for themselves.
[FWIW, I bought Unify Dream Machine and returned it quickly because its configuration seemed overly convoluted (and required creating an account with them just to use it). I’m not sure what model you have. I ended up with the edge router X and put NextDNS on the devices I care about rather than on the router. This has the major advantage of being able to quickly disable NextDNS temporarily if something doesn’t work right, rather than having to login to the server and chase down the problem. That’s just me though, some people find my way appalling. Then again I prefer stupid TVs and Stupid light bulbs and stupid doorbells, stupid refrigerator and most recently a stupid washing machine and no voice assistant. Rant over]
TLDR, ubiquity should just give you a way to enter the DOH (or DOT) information directly. Perhaps some day NextDNS will provide the stamp on their configuration page which they already customize for each profile..
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Screenshot attached. I hear ya on the stupid devices. Everything in my house is dumb and I have actually been setting each browser to use custom secure DNS, but would be nice to figure this out since it's a newly released feature.
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is there a different place to configure DNS where you can use IPv4 or DOH or an iPv6 address like just about everyone else does? This feels convoluted
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a stamp for each profile is available on the setup page under linux > dnscrypt.
It is a very odd choice to use DNS stamps in the UDM UI. It feels like they are leaking an implementation detail of their choice of underlaying software (dnscrypt-proxy).
Stamps only made sense for the dnscrypt protocol which couldn’t easily fit its connection info in a simple URL (DNS stamp was invented for dnscrypt and only used by dnscrypt-proxy). The dnscrypt protocol never took off and unlikely will, so DNS stamps should just go away in our opinion.
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Thank you! This saved me a lot of time!
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I totally respect your opinion and appreciate NextDNS for offering an easy way to find the settings. Cheers!
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Thank you! This answer helped tremendously. I just copied and pasted into the correct spot.
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I have done all of the above. Should I also still have the IPV4 and IPV6 addresses for NextDNS in the WAN interface and Local network settings as well?
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Hey, Just found the Stamp details are under NextDNS-Setup>Linux>DNSCrypt As soon as I entered them here it was picked up. No Device Identification though.
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