Temporarily disable filtering
Before I migrated from Pi-hole, there was an option to disable blocking for 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 5 minutes, etc. I was able to use that for troubleshooting.
E.g. to identify if Pi-hole was causing a problem, uBO, or the website was having a problem. Pain having to change DNS to verify if a blocklist is causing it.
When something isn't working on my wife's computer, I have to go through log and start adding some things that could be a problem, wait for TTL, and see if that fixes it. World be great if we could have a disable button per profile so that it just acts as a resolver without any blocking (basically, same as if a free user goes over 300,000 queries in over month).
53 replies
-
Made an account to suggest this feature as well, but already saw this thread. I would very much appreciate this option as well. I think the PiHole implementation -- where you can disable filtering and just do raw DNS resolution -- for 30 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, or until manually switched back on -- would be ideal.
-
Yeah. I need that, too.
As I use nextDNS on my router (asus wrt merlin) I am not able to simply disable filtering without completely uninstalling and then reinstalling it...
But I have Problems with the:- speedtestn.net app - it crashes on ios in nextdns-filtered networks and blocklist does not show, which request was blocked befor crash :/
- I was not able to restore my iPhone from apple server cloud backup on wifi... had to use mobile traffic (luckily my ISP sponsored 100GB this month) - but that proves also some thing is filtered with nxtdns
SO I'd like to have this option to temporarily disable all filtering, too.
happy holidays
-
This would be a great feature!
-
Definitely needed; haphazardly adding whitelists or removing/re-adding blocklists for trial & error is not the way
-
+1
-
I like this suggestion also.
One way to accomplish this however is too add a profile that has no filtering and then you can switch between them on your device. Though, it would be easier to just simply add a switch to disable all filters while leaving your filter selections in place on the same profile.
-
This feature would be a tremendous help. I often run into situations where I need to access a site one time. I'd like to just hit an 'Allow for 1 day' type of options and see it in the list. Then I would remove it before that time if I needed, or if I wait the system will remove it after the 1 day I specified when creating the entry on the allowlist.
-
Good afternoon Romain Cointepas & Olivier Poitrey ,
Thanks for everything you do. Hoping to get some traction on some of these postings. I used to post on Reddit and never got a response, but then started here once this site went live. Any info on these requests?
Thanks so much!
-
Would also love that feature.
-
This would be super helpful!
-
I don't think that would be a good idea anyone could override the nextdns deny at ease, except this would be an "allow" option/directive from the configuration setup.
You do not need to wait for TTL, just do ipconfig /flushdns which will clear the DNS cache.
-
+1 Same use case as OP.
-
I want it too because sometime need to remove all filters and re-add it again
-
+1
A selected filter was blocking a particular banking app on my phone from connecting.I can certainly disable filters one by one and leave out the offending party, but that'll take considerable time. I still had to get to my PC before I could remove all filters and use my app. That's a significant drawback to using this service.
A quick toggle would go a long way to at least make working around these issues faster and easier.
-
Essential feature, I am using IOS profile and it is too cumbersome to figure out which domain to whitelist when an app fails .. if there is an alternative for NextDns that offers a toggle switch … then I will cancel my subscription for NextDns immediately
-
A much needed feature indeed. Maybe even with a preset timer so it comes back to your predefined settings after X minutes. Would be very nice. ;)
-
While I do agree this would be nice to have...another option would be to just create a different configuration that has no blocking enabled and switch your device to use this configuration temporarily.
-
I strongly considered subscribing to NextDNS, as I think it has a lot of potential. However, once I discovered it can't be temporarily turned off, I had to revert back to Pihole. Specifically, I want to point my router DNS settings to it so all devices on my network automatically use it. Without a method to quickly toggle active/disabled (like on Pihole with a mobile widget or browser extension), it's just not feasible for me. I was hoping the new API would have an option, but there doesn't appear to be one.
-
Another hand up for this feature - currently trying to diagnose a problem on an exam PC which could be due to blocking. I'm having to do it at the weekend before the only way to disable NextDNS entirely is to remove it from the Fritzbox router and exit NextDNS client. This should be a client option so that even if NextDNS is running on the router, it would still effectively remove all unblocking for whatever
Content aside
-
240
Likes
- 17 hrs agoLast active
- 53Replies
- 6043Views
-
58
Following