PfSense & NextDns

A Former User

Does anyone know the proper way to setup nextdns CLI with pfsense ? I tried to do it as stated but nextdns cli tells me port 53 is already in use ?

https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns/wiki

juanzelli

@Buford-0 While these intructions are for OPNsense, it should provide enough guidance... How-to: NextDNS + OPNsense Firewall

A Former User

@juanzelli I got it installed, but it is only working for the Lan. my OPT1 has no dns .

abcole

@Buford-0
I did find this but not sure if it works.
In one of the post "you need to allow DNS Traffic to Firewall from the other Interfaces"

https://malwaretips.com/threads/setup-nextdns-with-pfsense.104831/#post-943265

I am looking to set this up myself.

yegor

There is a simpler way, using an alternative DNS daemon. It's fully compatible with NextDNS (or any DNS upstream really).

abcole

@yegor I was able to get this going with little effort from the online documents - Thank you for adding this extra URL