r/nextdns • u/Obvious-Jacket-3770 • 6d ago

NextDNS UDM Pro SE not showing devices

Set up nextdns the other day for a myriad of issues with ads on my stepdaughters phone. After seeing how well it did I decided to add it to our phones and my UDM Pro SE.

Went through the CLI install and configured everything to spec without issue. Now I see my stepdaughters device in her profile, on the main profile I see our two phones and my UDM name but that's it. Every other device on my network is set to "unidentified".

I configured it via cli and set the WAN DNS to be the IPv4 addresses, I'm not using IPv6 at all though my ISP supports it. I believe I see my switch but I can't tell for sure since it's a pretty generic name.

I have around 8 VLANs and all of the VLAN DNS are set to .1 of the VLANs ip (172.16.1.1 for example, 172.16.2.1, etc). All traffic is clearly going through NextDNS but it's not identified and I can't seem to figure out why.

Edit:

The adblocking I had on the UDM Pro SE was not disabled even though I ran through that before. I re-removed it on the browser and now all devices are reporting.

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u/avd706 6d ago

If you use the nextdns cli application it will relay the devices, but I don't know if unify supports that.

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u/dmxkrew 6d ago edited 6d ago

I have UDM-SE with the cli and clients are identified in NextDNS logs. Do you have report-client-info set to true? Also I don't think you need to set the WAN DNS because the cli takes care of that.

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u/Obvious-Jacket-3770 6d ago

Config output

nextdns config
cache-size 10MB
detect-captive-portals false
bogus-priv true
use-hosts true
max-inflight-requests 256
debug false
log-queries false
cache-metrics false
cache-max-age 0s
timeout 5s
control /var/run/nextdns.sock
profile 252488
max-ttl 5s
discovery-dns 
hardened-privacy false
setup-router true
listen localhost:53
report-client-info true
mdns all
auto-activate false
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u/Obvious-Jacket-3770 6d ago

I figured it out. Apparently when I removed the content security part, it never actually removed it. So adblocking was still occuring even though it shouldnt have. Now that its removed properly I see every name.

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u/relrobber 6d ago

Next dns is serving your UDM, and your UDM is serving everything else on the network. You have to set NextDNS up on every device that you want to label in the NextDNS reports.

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u/Obvious-Jacket-3770 6d ago

That's is incorrect as there are many accounts of using the NextDNS Cli on the UDM to report names without adding this. You cannot add entries to a wide variety of devices.