NextDNS Support via ctrld

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pbmu

• December 15, 2023 00:44

Heads up! You can now use ctrld to setup NextDNS on your Firewalla. There's no need to use the nextdns cli anymore.

https://github.com/Control-D-Inc/ctrld/wiki/NextDNS-Mode

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  Andy brown

  • December 15, 2023 08:27

  What's the benefit? 

   

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  Andy brown

  • December 15, 2023 15:42
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  Did you get it to work on Firewalla.

  in the data/controld folder

  I ran the command sudo ./ctrld start —nextdns (then my ID) as stated on Github

  That didn’t work for me as it stated —nextdns was an unknown flag.

   

  Thanks

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  pbmu

  • December 15, 2023 18:55

  I did get it to work. But I downloaded the latest version from GitHub and manually put it in /data/controld. Their installer wasn't installing the latest version (v1.3.2), which is when they added NextDNS support.

  The benefit to me at least is that you can see the individual device names in the logs and use different profiles with different devices.

  I would use ControlD itself, but NextDNS works with Tailscale natively.

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  Richard Aldridge

  • December 26, 2023 05:04

  I running this at the moment on my Firewalla Gold Plus, but it seems to stop working after a hour or so.  I have to restart the service.  Anyone else seeing this?

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  pbmu

  • December 27, 2023 20:04

  No, I've been having pretty good success with it. No issues thus far. 

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  hrmax

  • May 17, 2025 01:24

  pbmu I just installed ctrld on my FWG and having some issues with device names. Are you seeing all your device names in NextDNS? I see most device names missing when I check the ctrld clients but I see them all using arp -a.
  Also, are you using your lan IP or 127.0.0.1 in your firewalla lan network primary dns?

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