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Armor with NextDNS?
I have an Orbi960 mesh with Armor, there are some aspects of Nextdns I like such as ad blocking, how much does this diminish Armor, is it worth still keeping Armor?
Thanks much, I wanted to get some of the ad / content filtering capabilities via NextDNS and was curious if I just changed the DNS hosts in the router config to point to NextDNS whether I could get the best of both worlds.
Depending on how the nextdns iOS app works you may only be able to run one of them not both if they each require the use of a VPN profile. If it’s just a smart DNS that you subscribe to and simply change DNS then you could potentially run both simultaneously but you might end up tunnelling the DNS requests over the Armor VPN before it heads off to the Next DNS, as I’m not sure if it would split tunnel, so that may cause some latency issues with some apps. The frame fragmentation might get a bit quirky.
I had Armor and nextdns, just setup the nextdns IP details in the routers admin page (192.168.1.1), both Armor and nextdns appear to operate fine together and I was able to get the benefits of both worlds.
- Good to know. Thanks for the update.