New Update NextDNS adds several new Early Access security features

LinuxFan58 said:
Don´t want to derail this thread but why do you feel a VPN is important?
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@n8chavez put it perfectly to be honest

n8chavez said:
Why do you feel it's not. I'm ALWAYS using a VPN. I think it's required now, what with everyone trying to steal your data/identity. Anything that can at least try to keep my somewhat private is good in my book.
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It's not about being untraceable or unhackable or super anonymous and hiding from the NSA etc. It's about not making it easy for people to track you.

Why make it easy in the first place? Only time I'm not connected to a VPN is when I checkout on eCommerce/shopping. Otherwise all traffic is tunneled through a VPN.
 
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LinuxFan58 said:
Yes for home use was my question. I use a (free) VPN on demand, but only when I am travelling (and usually only for stuff I need to enter password or passkey/code for).

For corporate use it is more or less standard in the Netherlands for working at home.
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If you only want security and with enterprise grade encryption standard, move to cloudflare zero trust. It's free (50 different users with unlimited device for each user) and you can configure it easily with the the Ai help directly available on the website itself. On top of that you get these services for free, and you can selectively enable them on selected users.
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@Brahman

Yes I normally use Cloudflare Zero Trust free plan. Just switched to NextDNS to try out new protections.

I thought the malware scan was only for paid, but lets continue that in the Cloudflare thread


Thanks (y)
 
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Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread, but making a new thread with a question about NextDNS while this exists would be... Meh to me.

I felt like my connection was a bit slow today, so I wanted to check with dnscheck.tools what it would show. And it was a bit slower than usual but acceptable to me. But I saw this aswell!

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I mean... what the hell? I have seen Frankfurt before, with NextDNS and with Quad9 but never US. And certainly never both at the same time, and more than half of those give that warning?
 
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Morro said:
Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread, but making a new thread with a question about NextDNS while this exists would be... Meh to me.

I felt like my connection was a bit slow today, so I wanted to check with dnscheck.tools what it would show. And it was a bit slower than usual but acceptable to me. But I saw this aswell!

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I mean... what the hell? I have seen Frankfurt before, with NextDNS and with Quad9 but never US. And certainly never both at the same time, and more than half of those give that warning?
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It could be related to how NextDNS can direct queries to different servers depending on routing, availability, or load at a given moment. Sometimes this can cause diagnostic tools to show locations or hostnames that do not match perfectly.

It can also happen when some servers use generic hostnames from the hosting provider where they are running, which may trigger those warnings.

This does not necessarily indicate a security issue; it may simply be related to how the infrastructure is organized. If everything is working normally, it could just be a technical detail reported by the diagnostic tool. 🌐🔎
 
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Halp2001 said:
It could be related to how NextDNS can direct queries to different servers depending on routing, availability, or load at a given moment. Sometimes this can cause diagnostic tools to show locations or hostnames that do not match perfectly.

It can also happen when some servers use generic hostnames from the hosting provider where they are running, which may trigger those warnings.

This does not necessarily indicate a security issue; it may simply be related to how the infrastructure is organized. If everything is working normally, it could just be a technical detail reported by the diagnostic tool. 🌐🔎
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Thank you, I hope it is that then.
 
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Zero Knowledge said:
Could not be bothered or stuffed in the slightest. I don't want to muck around with github scripts and crap. Just give me a pointy clicky UI and I'm happy!
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:-) I just use the webconsole, stopped messing with scripts

@Brahman you are right it is also available in the free plan, but when enabled it halves my download speed
 

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