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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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    • Henry
    • 1 mth ago
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    It has been three years since I posted this and we haven’t received a single response from @nextdns (if that is valid),  @Romain Cointepas, or @Olivier Poitrey.

    I’m still a paying customer as I love the product, but this is obviously a desired feature.

      • Jamie_Martin
      • 1 mth ago
      • Reported - view

        As I said earlier in this post, I switched to ControlD. They constantly update the product, and the UI is great.

      AdGuard is another solid option.

      They both have this feature.

      NextDNS was great for a while, but it's obviously in maintenance mode, and we shouldn't expect any updates.

    • Calvin_Hobbes
    • 2 wk ago
    • Reported - view

    3 years later and 240 upvotes.  Still not implemented?   I’ve been a subscriber for several years and often promote Nextdns and complain about the complainers, but seriously this is getting ridiculous.
     

     It’s not just this particular idea.   Several obvious and seemingly simple to implement requests are being ignored (cleaning up no longer maintained lists, for example).  

    Oddly, a few ideas/requests have been implemented without any indication of why they were chosen.  
     

    There’s competitive services (both local and hosted) that are evolving and perhaps surpassing what was once the clear leader in DNS filtering.   My annual subscription just renewed and I’m going to look at other options before the next renewal period.

    I don’t really want to start over with a different service or learn how to implement a locally hosted system, but I’m considering doing just that.

    Come on @nextdns, show your customers some love.  Please!

    • daktah
    • 2 hrs ago
    • Reported - view

    I too made an account just to suggest basically this idea (I was actually going to suggest individual switches for each block list to make isolating the problem even easier), but the fact that the OP is over 4 years old and this feature still isn't implemented is extremely disappointing. I wish I would have checked on this before paying for a year literally 3 days ago, but here's hoping I guess... 😑

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