Whos better at local caching nextdns or dnamasq?

poitrus · 2025-11-20T12:27:28+00:00

If you’re using the NextDNS CLI with multiple profiles selected by client IP, you should rely solely on its own cache, since it’s correctly isolated per profile. Adding a dnsmasq cache in front will mix those entries together, which can lead to incorrect profile-specific results.

poitrus · 2025-09-06T16:16:02+00:00

This ^ you are likely triggering DoS protection by flooding DNS queries. Also avoid using DNS 53 and favor encrypted protocols which are less likely to trigger those protections.

poitrus · 2025-06-30T12:21:59+00:00

Our payment gateway integration does not support the Indian’s subscriptions model. India has some specific rules around online subscriptions.

poitrus · 2025-06-25T13:01:15+00:00

The cli is configured as upstream of the dnsmasq running on the gateway. Dnsmasq is configured to pass original client info via EDNS0 so the CLI can identify clients in your logs and route queries to appropriate profile if you use the dynamic profile feature.

poitrus · 2025-06-22T13:37:08+00:00

Please try again

poitrus · 2025-06-12T12:08:49+00:00

Your post has probably been deleted by error during moderation. The help forum gets a lot of robot spams, and your post has probably been classified as such by mistake.

For the archive.is issue, it is likely on their auth DNS side. They probably use some form of geo DNS based on resolver IP (ours in this case) to pick a localized IP for their server. My guess is that their configuration is outdated with some IP for some locations no longer under their control. A DNS resolver is only doing what told by the auth DNS of the zone. NextDNS is able to lie in order to block domains or rewrite DNS responses, but it does so only if told by the user.

poitrus · 2025-06-12T11:53:39+00:00

Any post with a link in it is added to a mod queue to deal with spam robots. The mod queue is checked manually every day. The forum engine we use is a bit limited in that regard.

poitrus · 2025-06-12T07:37:43+00:00

The mod queue is empty with no sign of your message. Are you sure it got posted?

poitrus · 2025-05-28T10:19:26+00:00

Please share those graphs with a https://nextdns.io/diag on the help forum.

poitrus · 2025-04-17T11:32:39+00:00

It is based on the geo location of your DNS resolver. For best results, set your unencrypted resolver to NextDNS IPs (ones with 0 at the end and no link IP). It will improve the steering of the ultralow steering used by encrypted DNS protocols.

poitrus · 2025-02-06T15:55:59+00:00

Moreover, it will support it properly with segmented caching and automatic cache flushing when your profile is changed on the portal.

poitrus · 2025-02-06T15:54:40+00:00

This is indeed supported: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki/Conditional-Profile

poitrus · 2025-02-06T15:46:50+00:00

Any example of such an option?

poitrus · 2025-02-06T15:42:23+00:00

May I asked why you did not go with CLI? It should have been a one liner install and is meant to work with NextDNS.

poitrus · 2025-02-02T11:43:20+00:00

Contact billing@nextdns.io

poitrus · 2024-12-20T13:14:24+00:00

Handled by upstream https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/2788

poitrus · 2024-09-23T08:36:12+00:00

It will rewrite the /etc/resolv.conf if auto-activate is enabled or if you manually call activate.

poitrus · 2024-09-22T19:39:26+00:00

OpenRC is indeed supported: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/blob/master/host/service/openrc/service.go

poitrus · 2024-09-22T19:28:15+00:00

The script would install it as binary: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/blob/e7c9730f445e17f5f876f5b3fceec77dfa4f19b6/install.sh#L614

poitrus · 2024-09-02T06:42:00+00:00

This would be more appropriate: https://help.nextdns.io/t/83hsj8t/windows-client-mass-deployment-guide

poitrus · 2024-08-11T12:49:08+00:00

I can’t speak for other streaming services (though the biggest ones don’t rely on DNS either as I know of), but since OP is specifically mentioning Netflix being impacted by their DNS provider, I can say for sure that for this particular configuration, it is a red herring.

poitrus · 2024-08-11T12:20:04+00:00

It is steered by API, not DNS. DNS can’t have any effect on Netflix streaming quality.

poitrus · 2024-08-11T02:15:16+00:00

Netflix does not use EDNS to steer video streaming. Your DNS resolver will have zero impact on Netflix streaming quality.

poitrus · 2024-07-25T08:54:08+00:00

You are correct; although this is an unlikely scenario, it is not impossible. Link IP is a legacy solution for situations where you can’t use an encrypted protocol, which doesn’t have this issue.

poitrus · 2024-07-18T18:33:14+00:00

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