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).
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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.
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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
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This would be a great feature!
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Definitely needed; haphazardly adding whitelists or removing/re-adding blocklists for trial & error is not the way
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+1
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Would also love that feature.
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This would be super helpful!
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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.
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+1 Same use case as OP.
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I want it too because sometime need to remove all filters and re-add it again
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+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.
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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
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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. ;)
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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.
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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.
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