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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 a plane, etc, I need to remember to turn it off. This means that I cannot recommend it to my non-technical friends.

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I’ve been using NextDNS for a little while and don’t remember having issues with captive portals on my iPhone. Maybe something changed?

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.

Interesting. I've had the same issues. Is there a captive portal whitelist somewhere?

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

A general trick for bringing up the captive portal manually is to browse to a non ssl url such as 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.

http://neverssl.com/ is my go-to for this.

Not http://nevertls.com ?

Or http://gstatic.com/generate_204?

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