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I love NextDNS. The one (fairly huge) issue that I have is that it cannot handle captive portals when its enabled on my iPhone. So if I'm joining the wifi on

I love NextDNS. The one (fairly huge) issue that I have is that it cannot handle captive portals when its enabled on my iPhone. So if I'm joining the wifi on a plane, etc, I need to remember to turn it off. This means that I cannot recommend it to my non-technical friends.

maronato 3y ago
I’ve been using NextDNS for a little while and don’t remember having issues with captive portals on my iPhone. Maybe something changed?
- hipsterstal1n 3y ago
  Most likely it's due to the different lists you can add or use on NextDNS. I also have issues with captive portals (I run a number of lists on NextDNS) and I just flip it off and on when I need to.
  - mbesto 3y ago
    Interesting. I've had the same issues. Is there a captive portal whitelist somewhere?
  - drewg123 3y ago
    I just checked, and I don't use any lists, except for an allow list I just started with captive portal domains. Eg .aainflight.com, .captive.apple.com, etc
air7 3y ago
A general trick for bringing up the captive portal manually is to browse to a non ssl url such as http://example.com http://example.com The portal would unapologeticly mitm the server response with a redirect to the portal login page. The domain needs to exist (to pass DNS) and not have HSTS, but otherwise any address will do.
- ssklash 3y ago
  http://neverssl.com/ http://neverssl.com/ is my go-to for this.
  - scosman 3y ago
    Not http://nevertls.com http://nevertls.com ?
    - hn_go_brrrrr 3y ago
      Or http://gstatic.com/generate_204 http://gstatic.com/generate_204?