NextDNS Installer

[bbunge]

I have sat on my hands for a couple of days after reading the announcement about NextDNS on Merlin.
I am concerned with the inclusion of a commercial Beta app, software, service or whatever you want to call it. Yes, Asus and Trend Micro are commercial but they were in the router firmware before any of the very skilled individuals started tinkering to come up with a wonderful product and their only payment is thanks and the occasional donation. Many others have added to the Merlin product. All at the same cost to the consumer.
Something just does not seem right to me to welcome a commercial product to this realm. I may be old, opinionated and set in my ways but I would like to cast my vote for not including NextDNS in the Merlin firmware.
If they want to have an add-on in Asus Merlin let them host it and the associated Blog/Forum from their own resources. Or significantly contribute to Tim/SNB and Eric/Asus Merlin.

 

[Olivier Poitrey]

I have sat on my hands for a couple of days after reading the announcement about NextDNS on Merlin.
I am concerned with the inclusion of a commercial Beta app, software, service or whatever you want to call it. Yes, Asus and Trend Micro are commercial but they were in the router firmware before any of the very skilled individuals started tinkering to come up with a wonderful product and their only payment is thanks and the occasional donation. Many others have added to the Merlin product. All at the same cost to the consumer.
Something just does not seem right to me to welcome a commercial product to this realm. I may be old, opinionated and set in my ways but I would like to cast my vote for not including NextDNS in the Merlin firmware.
If they want to have an add-on in Asus Merlin let them host it and the associated Blog/Forum from their own resources. Or significantly contribute to Tim/SNB and Eric/Asus Merlin.

It's not included in the firmware, you have to install it (hence the title of this thread).

 

[Olivier Poitrey]

I guess its like the issue with PiHole not reporting names either, unless you had named LAN and other issues I never overcame. I will probably just revert to Diversion if that is the case.

Could be a useful tool for an out and about VPN/DNS filter though.

Can you please test last version. Client reporting should work much better.

 

[XIII]

you could just up date the IP using curl to their link ip updater on a cronjob or link your routers DDNS address to their site. Their site will match your ddns service address to its current IP.

Not sure I understand. What is my "ddns service address"?

 

[bbunge]

It's not included in the firmware, you have to install it (hence the title of this thread).

See your first post: We are also working with @RMerlin to add a UI to this integration. Stay tuned.

 

[Adamm]

See your first post: We are also working with @RMerlin to add a UI to this integration. Stay tuned.

He is referring to making an addon using the upcoming API (much like Skynet has recently done), a few of us developers are working behind the scenes to write guidelines and work out the kinks.

 

[EmeraldDeer]

Not sure I understand. What is my "ddns service address"?

For example, SomeWhereOverTheRainBow.asuscomm.com if you are using Asus to keep track of your WAN IP.

 

[XIII]

For example, SomeWhereOverTheRainBow.asuscomm.com if you are using Asus to keep track of your WAN IP.

That's what I would like NextDNS to replace, by implementing a DDNS.

(so xxx.nextdns.com or any other domain name, instead of xxx.asuscomm.com, pointing to my IP)

Then you would not need Asus' DDNS, No-IP, Afraid, etc. (and it would make the $1,99/month investment better)

 

[Kingp1n]

That's what I would like NextDNS to replace, by implementing a DDNS.

(so xxx.nextdns.com or any other domain name, instead of xxx.asuscomm.com, pointing to my IP)

Then you would not need Asus' DDNS, No-IP, Afraid, etc. (and it would make the $1,99/month investment better)

I like that we have options now and I apologize in advance for my ignorance but what would NextDNS "paid" version provide that cloudflare (or the other services) already do for free?

 

[5stringdeath]

I like that we have options now and I apologize in advance for my ignorance but what would NextDNS "paid" version provide that cloudflare (or the other services) already do for free?

Cloudflare (Google, et al) are just DNS providers they do no ad filtering, etc. that NextDNS is also providing.

 

[EmeraldDeer]

I like that we have options now and I apologize in advance for my ignorance but what would NextDNS "paid" version provide that cloudflare (or the other services) already do for free?

DNS filtering that is configurable and web reports

 

[Kingp1n]

Thanks for the input on the differences...but ad filtering would be similar as using diversion/skynet along with cloudflare?

 

[damse]

This is not working for me somehow.
I installed and reinstalled the official app and, with no obvious pattern, it just stops sending devices queries through nextDNS.
I browse to my.nextdns.io and I get the red dot with the message: "This device is not using NextDNS."

The weird thing is that some queries still show up in the logs (and only from one or two wired devices).

Any insight or advice on how to troubleshoot this would be nice.
Cheers

Edit: Some info on my setup:

Asus Ac87U
nextdns version 1.4.12

logs: https://pastebin.com/raw/h7u92gTj

 

[Treadler]

Thanks for the input on the differences...but ad filtering would be similar as using diversion/skynet along with cloudflare?

Yup, so far as I can see.
Reinventing the wheel?

 

[dave14305]

This is not working for me somehow.
I installed and reinstalled the official app and, with no obvious pattern, it just stops sending devices queries through nextDNS.
I browse to my.nextdns.io and I get the red dot with the message: "This device is not using NextDNS."

The weird thing is that some queries still show up in the logs (and only from one or two wired devices).

Any insight or advice on how to troubleshoot this would be nice.
Cheers

Edit: Some info on my setup:

Asus Ac87U
nextdns version 1.4.12

logs: https://pastebin.com/raw/h7u92gTj

I've seen this issue where the daemon dies when the SSH session which launched it exits, or a CTRL-C is sent in the session. Not sure what's going on.

I don't know jack about GO programming, but I think it's something funky about the way they run the service in the background.
https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/blob/master/host/service/run.go#L27

What do you think @Olivier Poitrey?

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

I've seen this issue where the daemon dies when the SSH session which launched it exits, or a CTRL-C is sent in the session. Not sure what's going on.

Equal to hitting F9+enter to the process with htop?

 

[Olivier Poitrey]

I've seen this issue where the daemon dies when the SSH session which launched it exits, or a CTRL-C is sent in the session. Not sure what's going on.

I don't know jack about GO programming, but I think it's something funky about the way they run the service in the background.
https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/blob/master/host/service/run.go#L27

What do you think @Olivier Poitrey?

It is a bug. Will be fixed in the next revision (tonight).

 

[Olivier Poitrey]

The version 1.4.13 fixes the bug making nextdns exit with the ssh session. Just run the installer again, and select upgrade to fix the issue.

Release note is here: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/releases/tag/v1.4.13

 

[dave14305]

The version 1.4.13 fixes the bug making nextdns exit with the ssh session. Just run the installer again, and select upgrade to fix the issue.

Release note is here: https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/releases/tag/v1.4.13

Works better. Had to run the installer from GitHub because the one on nextdns.io had a loop with the quit option.

 

[ajp2k14]

I can't get this working on my AC86U. It complains about not being able write to write protected filesystem and also complains about unable to allocted memory. Anyone else with an AC86U try this?