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Entering more than one white list domain at once

Hey, I have an white list, but its so exhausting to enter them one by one, how can i enter this list at once?

Should I wait for a message by an emain later?

So I like NextDNS and used it everyday and I thought I contribute smth to it by translating the page in Albanian, when I went and emailed the support this is what I received so should I wait a bit…

UDM / NextDNS 1.37.10 / error: Error: non zero exit code: 1: OCI runtime error

Hi, I am seeing the error message "Error: non zero exit code: 1: OCI runtime error" even when calling the help. UDM Firmware 1.12.13 # nextdns help Usage:…

How to choose ads- & tracking-filters

Hello from a Swedish NextDNS-user! It has taken some time to choose wisely among filter lists. Some of them like Energized and Lightswitch05 in all their different variations simply block way…

Buying a NextDNS education account can use the "Prohibit Disablement" feature on iOS?

Is it normal for a router to not cache DNS lookups?

I just started using NextDNA and used up my 300,000 queries in a little over 24 hours. My home network has a large number of devices, but this seems excessive.…

NextDNS : prevent DNS change on iOS ... kids are smart

hi, just discovering nextDNS and it's amazing. but on kids ios device the older one already found the way to disable it... i was willing to use DNSCloak iOS app and configure it to use nextDNS…

DNS Rebinding Protection and private IPs

Hi folks, I want to enable the DNS Rebinding Protection feature but I have a DNS record which points to a private IP address. Think of the following scenario: myhost.mydomain.…

DOH over VPN

I’ll say right up front, I’ve made no attempt to use NextDNS or any specific DNS provider over a VPN. However, I see many posts (here and elsewhere) from people asking how to use NextDNS with…

Block ads from App Store?

Hi, Do anyone know if it’s possible to block Apple’s App Store ads with NEXTDNS in anyway? Thank you!

NextDNS CLI - Exclude a device

Hey, so I would like to use NextDns CLI on my Unifi USG router but I need to exclude one device from using NextDNS servers and to use actually some standard ones like 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1.…

Does NextDNS blocks iPhone microphone?

I have iPhone 13 Pro and randomly when someone phones me cannot hear me. I ask because I see in logs I see NextDNS blocks a lot of Apple services

Conditional forwarding on UDM Base

Hi guys im very new to NextDNS and so far it’s working really well, so much so that I’m moving over to it from Pihole. my network has 4 Vlans Vlan 1 - 10.0.0.1/24 - were UDM is located Vlan 10 -10.…

Customer support?

How do I get support as a customer (I'm on the Pro plan)? If this is all there is (posting publicly), my question is: are there any safeguards in place which make it so that only I can use my…

Automatically disable NextDNS on certain WiFi networks

My school WiFi doesn't mix nicely with DNS servers, so it doesn't let me use the WiFi when connected to NextDNS. Of course, this can be solved by disabling NextDNS temporarily in my Settings app,…

Suddenly failing on iOS “This device is using NextDNS with no configuration.”

Wondering if others are seeing this behavior. Something changed recently on iOS. I’ve tried both the app and profile and keep seeing my personal configuration ignored. I go to the my.NextDNS.…

Reducing queries on Desktop/Laptop

I wanted to share this in-case people didn't already know. By using DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials you can stop a lot of the scripts that make DNS queries to analytics domains,…

Typosquatting: https://test.nextdns.io blocked...

https://test.nextdns.io is blocked on Firefox 104.0 but not on Safari 15.6.1. Both browsers are obviously running on the same machine on macOS 12.5.1. I just can't explain it.