Identify your devices
NextDNS writes on its homepage that the following method can be used to identify the devices:
DNS-over-HTTPS
Append the name to the given URL (the name should be URL-encoded).
For "Johns Firefox" you would use https://dns.nextdns.io/xxxxx/Johns%20Firefox as the DNS-over-TLS endpoint.
Can the MikroTik router (RB4011) be configured to send the client information along ?
Thank you, greetings Richard
Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
In the Setup / Setup Guide section of your chosen nextdns config there's a section for MikroTik under Routers, did you encounter a problem with those instructions?
Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
no ... i followed this instruction:
DoH works .... thats not the problem.
But in the NextDNS GUI, section "statistics" i see only "Unidentified devices" .... :-(
br, Richard
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/tool fetch url=https://curl.se/ca/cacert.pem
/certificate import file-name=cacert.pem
/ip dns set servers=
/ip dns static add name=dns.nextdns.io address=45.90.28.0 type=A
/ip dns static add name=dns.nextdns.io address=45.90.30.0 type=A
/ip dns set use-doh-server=“https://dns.nextdns.io/xxxxx” verify-doh-cert=yes
But in the NextDNS GUI, section "statistics" i see only "Unidentified devices" .... :-(
br, Richard
Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
You follow the instructions from "Identify your devices" -> DoH section, Firefox is used just as an example name in there, you can use it the same way everywhere you're using DoH.
and on NextDNS / Logs:
see:Append the name to the provided URL (the name should be URL encoded).
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/ip dns set use-doh-server="https://dns.nextdns.io/XXXXXXX/Znevna's%20CHR-VM-02" verify-doh-cert=yesYou do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
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Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
ok, so i see the router requesting the DNS querys .. but not the clients (i.e. iPhone, NAS, Sonos, etc.) behind that requests the DNS querys (like pihole) ... right ?
Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
To make that happen you'd have to use DoH in every of those devices with some other name for each of them appended to the URL.
Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
ok thx, that is not possible with clients like sonos, smaungsTV, etc ;-)
could this help ?
https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns
one of the features:
Auto discovery and forwarding of LAN client's name and model.
br, Richard
could this help ?
https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns
one of the features:
Auto discovery and forwarding of LAN client's name and model.
br, Richard
Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
If you install that on any of the supported devices and use that as your LAN's DNS with a preconfigured hosts file or something, maybe.
Since MikroTik doesn't use anywhere the hostnames from DHCP Leases, you'd have to script it: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Setting_ ... DHCP_lease
Or use another DHCP server.
Then there's the problem with clients requesting via IPv6, if you use IPv6.
short: NO
Since MikroTik doesn't use anywhere the hostnames from DHCP Leases, you'd have to script it: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Setting_ ... DHCP_lease
Or use another DHCP server.
Then there's the problem with clients requesting via IPv6, if you use IPv6.
short: NO
Re: NextDNS DoH ... Identify your devices !?
Thx for the answer :-)