> setup multiple profiles that lets me have strong parental control configuration for kids
I've been using it too, but I've found nextdns go down from time to time. How are you dealing with explaining how to change the DNS setting to people at home because "internet doesn't work"? I wish DoH client implementations had support for primary and secondary endpoints [0]. I've seen people straight up uninstall DoH clients from their devices in frustration.
I must point out that the Android implementation for DoT does fallback to OS or network provided DNS resolver (usually, dns.google), and that's a saving grace [1]. And so, I have no reservations setting up nextdns for everyone on the Androids.
[1] Speaking of DoH instead: Google's https://getintra.org falls back to last-known good DoH resolver, but then, never (?) switches back to primary unless restarted, from what I can recall.
> How are you dealing with explaining how to change the DNS setting to people at home because "internet doesn't work"?
I may be mistaken here but I thought the reason almost all operating systems allow you to specify more than one DNS is in case the primary one goes down. So if you specify NextDNS as the primary and say, Google or whatever, as the secondary: you likely won't see downtime (but obviously the filtering will disappear until the primary one comes back up and/or DNS caches reset etc)
That doesn't always work, because servers aren't always used in strict order.
For example, my default Kubuntu 19.10 installation flips the primary and secondary if the primary is unresponsive for a while. Since my laptop takes a moment to establish a WiFi connection upon waking up, it always decides that the primary server is down and to default to the secondary server. It has currently been 3½ hours since my laptop queried its primary server and it has queried the secondary server over 1000 times in the past 24 hours despite the primary having 100% uptime.
Most stub resolvers have an option to use strict order, but you can't rely on it as a network admin.
In my case, my daughter so far accesses internet primarily via specific apps on the family tablet so any websites not opening are not an issue yet. Moving to nextdns is more of an preemptive move as I just gave her my old laptop; eventually she will be on the internet by herself (intentionally or accidentally) so hopefully this helps with that.
I've been using it too, but I've found nextdns go down from time to time. How are you dealing with explaining how to change the DNS setting to people at home because "internet doesn't work"? I wish DoH client implementations had support for primary and secondary endpoints [0]. I've seen people straight up uninstall DoH clients from their devices in frustration.
I must point out that the Android implementation for DoT does fallback to OS or network provided DNS resolver (usually, dns.google), and that's a saving grace [1]. And so, I have no reservations setting up nextdns for everyone on the Androids.
Fwiw, I've found running DoH with Stackpath Edge Engine and Cloudflare Workers to be quite trouble-free, but it isn't for everyone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22414433
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[0] Nebulo (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frostnerd....) is the only Android DoH client I've seen support this.
[1] Speaking of DoH instead: Google's https://getintra.org falls back to last-known good DoH resolver, but then, never (?) switches back to primary unless restarted, from what I can recall.