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 :)
Why not just a VPN towards your home? All benefits at once. Maybe some latency.
Worked well for me, used it for couple of months, maybe an entire year. Re-installed my OS and didn’t put it back.
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.
its Pretty good actually. I use it most of the time. I also use quad9 and mullvade sometimes
I use CloudFlare Zero Trust instead which is better.
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.
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 personally use Mullvad, although it’s not as customizable as Pihole/NextDNS.
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.
@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’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.
Using ND for 3y now, have not had your issue with loading. Pixel 8 Pro, graphene. Family is also on Pixels, stock, no issues. All on ND, of course.
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’ve been using it for the past 4 years and it has been rock solid for me. I use the oisd list with some of the overlapping security lists disabled and it just works. I never get complaints from family members either. It’s enabled on my home network, iOS/MacOS/Linux devices and in Tailscale.
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.
