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Free alternatives to NextDNS?

Hey yo hey yo fellow pirates:

Wondering if there is any good free alternative to NextDNS, I know I can self-host my own DNS server on my LAN but I need a mobile solution.

I’m currently testing AdGuard Public DNS, what do you think about it? Should I use another alternative? In that case which alternative do you recommend?

That’s all for now, thx in advice and keep calm, keep pirating.

retro ,

I know you specifically asked for free but if you VPN to Turkey, NextDNS only costs $4.50 per year.

R1dley2 ,

How’d you manage this price? I’m showing 499 Turkish lira or about $16.50 a year? Still a bit cheaper but not down to $4.50!

retro ,

I should have double checked. My last bill was $4.50 but they bumped the price. It’s a shame, but I’ll still use it as it’s a good service.

PotatoesFall ,

ControlD has free resolvers

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

👍👍

Paddzr ,

Are nextdns alright in a commercial setting? It’s one of those i inherited with the job but because it works, I haven’t touched it yet. Should i bump this task in my priority list?

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

NextDNS it’s pretty good, but as I’m cutting unnecessary money spending I’m looking for good free alternatives, for now the best people recommendations are Mullvad and LibreDNS from my POV.

Paddzr ,

I use mullvad on my personal stuff. I love their business model.

kokesh ,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

I’m running AdGuard home (at home on $10 x86 thin client) and simply opened ports on my router and pointed my domain to the ip. Worked like a charm. Then my ISP added me CGNAT, so I’ve added free VPS doing wireguard tunnel home, so everything works fine. I run AdGuard with Let’s encrypt certificates, so I use the private DNS setting in Android directly with my domain. I’m running my home net on an unlimited 4G LTE connection.

WeLoveCastingSpellz ,

quad9

0xblaze ,

You could try libredns

They have options for no-ads and DNS over https.

It is maintained by libreOps

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

Thx for this valuable info mate.

AnActOfCreation ,
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev avatar

This is the answer! noads.libredns.gr for the win!

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

It is a trustworthy service?

AnActOfCreation ,
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev avatar

From what I’ve heard, yes! They claim they keep no logs, and of course it’s all open source. But of course do your own research!

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

Let’s see then thx for the info mate 👍👍

Cheradenine ,

You could try rethinkdns.com their Android app is great too

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

Thx for the info 👍👍

cmnybo ,

I’ve been using AdGuard public DNS on my phone for years and it’s been working really well for me. It blocks most of the ads in android apps. I use Firefox with uBlock Origin in addition to that and I hardly ever see any ads in the browser.

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

Do you know about any other free alternatives out there?

cmnybo ,

There’s Mullvad DNS and RethinkDNS if you want ad blocking.

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

Thx mate I believe I will go for the mullvad base option.

Gamera8ID ,
@Gamera8ID@discuss.online avatar

I’ve been switching to controld.com every month after hitting my NextDNS limit. Seems to work fine. If it keeps working then I may just forget to switch back to NextDNS altogether.

daddybutter ,

Also a Control D user. OISD full has worked great for me!

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

I believe it’s a good alternative but it is paid, I am searching for free alternatives. Anyway thx for the info mate.

Cheradenine ,

ControlD has a free tier, albeit with less functionality

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

Ok I will check it then, thx anyway but for now the best I’ve got it’s AdGuard public DNS but let’s see what happens.

rizoid ,
@rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Pihole and wireguard to use it outside the house is what I use.

BlackSkinnedJew OP ,

Sounds reasonable thx for the info mate, but one question, I guess I wouldn’t be allowed to use a VPN at the same time, right?

Edit: I mean unless I setup the VPN at the server.

rambos ,

You are right, I can toggle between home VPN (pihole) and payed VPN, but cant use both at the same time. Im sure you can also route trafic to use payed VPN trought your own wireguard, but I never tried that

LEDZeppelin ,

I have pihole setup for home. WAN you please elaborate what you mean for when I’m not home and on my cell phone data?

rizoid ,
@rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

In my wireguard config I have it’s DNS set to the IP of my pihole. That’s all I had to do. I’ve had this config running for a bit so I don’t remember if I had to change anything else.

maus ,

This is what I do, but with Unbound dns on opnsense with dns forwarding to my business cloudflare account which gives me additional filtering options.

Allows me to properly do dns caching and filtering in Unbound and then leverage cloudflare to do additional security threat filtering on top.

Then it’s just a matter of setting up a firewall rule to redirect any port 53 to the local Unbound dns and blocking all 853 traffic to ensure all iot devices aren’t using their own hard-coded dns.

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