At home I am using PiHole but “on the road” I also what a good solution like PiHole. So a few days ago I read that NextDNS is a good option and in some cases even better then PiHole. So that is, why I’m now here to get some opiniond from you gals and guys :)
NextDNS has been excellent for me. Only “issue” I have had is that it doesn’t always play nice with wifi captive portals. I typically have to disable nextdns on my device, join, then re-enable.
I use PiHole and installed Wireguard on my RaspPi. Works really well, and I can bring the PiHole-functionality everywhere while easily toggle it on and off.
I use as as I don’t even want to bother hosting a PiHole, and honestly it works quite well. Set it as a DoT on Android and you have it outside from home without having to think about it.
Worked well for me, used it for couple of months, maybe an entire year. Re-installed my OS and didn’t put it back.
its Pretty good actually. I use it most of the time. I also use quad9 and mullvade sometimes
I pay the $20 per year and use it as a backup for my local and vps wireguard/pihole installs. Works great and you can use custom local dns records for your Lan if you wish. Plus you can use it on android/ios without any extra software installs.
I like it, the interface is super easy to use and I like that you can put a suffix in the url to separate a device name for custom rules or filtering.
I’ve been using NextDNS for about 1.5 years as a paid customer.
Sometimes I run into these weird connection issues where nothing loads. I turn off private DNS on Android then turn it back on and pages start loading again. I haven’t had this issue on iPadOS and Windows.
I don’t know if it’s an Android thing or a NextDNS thing.
I wish there was an easier way to enable/disable it on their website as sometimes you need to access a website blocked by your filters and it can be cumbersome to remove private DNS in Windows’ settings.
Other than that it’s worked well.
@andylicious1337 its fine. But the free tier 300k limit might be tight for 2-3 devices. Personally I’ve been using https://github.com/sieusus/lilac-gateway-pihole, sort of a self managed pihole running on cloudflare and github cli.
I’m using it since a few years now across all our mobile devices and our home internet. It’s working great, if you ignore the occasional ‘can’t reach DNS’ problem with some access points. Apart from this I love the customisability and ease of use.
I personally use Mullvad, although it’s not as customizable as Pihole/NextDNS.
I host my own technetium (recursive DNS) server and have my phone set to always be connected to my network through wireguard. I have nextdns as one of my upstreams along with mullvad and a few others in case those don’t work.
Yes. And I’m using Tasker to automatically switch the Android setting to use Private DNS when not connected to my Wifi SSID. That way I have never used up the free usage of 300,000 queries.
Fyi - you CAN use your pihole when you’re away from home. Overall high level steps are:
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Download PiVPN on the rPi
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Set up a client
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Download wireguard app on mobile
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Import config you generated in step 2
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PROFIT!!!
Speed limited to home network upload speed am i right?
Wireguard can be configured to proxy specifically only any requests across the DNS and Encrypted DNS ports and protocols. It is extremely capable of being lightweight and not carrying all your traffic.
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Used it for a few months. Never had any problem but now moved to adguard DNS. Got a great deal for 5 years, way cheaper than nextdns when i pay yearly. Includes adguard adguard block, vpn and dns.
If both cost the same i would choose nextdns. Nextdns feels a little bit faster.
I dont like ControlD. The webui is a mess, for me personally. NextDNS webui is easier to understand.
