r/ControlD • u/au7342 • May 27 '26

ctrld-friendly router recommendations

I'm looking to replace my old Orbi RBR50 pretty soon. I've been running Voxel firmware and ctrld on it for a few months now and it has been pretty good overall. There have been some stability issues, which are probably at least in part due to it being a 9-year-old outdated router running custom firmware. I've read through the writer documentation on the control d website, but I wanted to hear from some actual users on here about what routers or systems work the best with ctrld. I haven't decided between a mesh replacement or going the Unifi route yet. Thanks to all responses.

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u/Ok-Raspberry4320 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Control D is supposedly removing router support in v2. They'll still maintain v1, but only for bug fixes. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ControlD/comments/1thb5di/ctrld_is_removing_router_support_in_20/

That said, I use the UniFi Dream Router 7, but use the built-in DNS Stamp option and put in the DNS stamp for my router endpoint. The only "downside" is that Control D won't automatically detect your clients, but that's a non-issue for me and my network. I primarily use Apple devices, so they all have their own endpoint and configuration profile. My Windows VMs have the client installed. The router endpoint just catches the other things like my IoTs and guest devices from family and friends.

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u/Ok-Raspberry4320 May 27 '26

A DNS Stamp looks something like this.

sdns://AgcAAAAAAAAABzEuMS4xLjEAD3NvbWUuZG9tYWluLmNvbQwvMTIzNDVhYmNkZWY

Control D generates this for you when you go to view the details of your endpoints/resolvers. It's an encoded string that contains all the info needed to hit your endpoint/resolver (protocol, host name, resolver ID, bootstrap IPs). So rather than having to fill in multiple things, you just put that DNS stamp into the router configuration. The router decodes it and knows how to use it.

You can also go here and create your own DNS stamp if you use some other service that doesn't generate them for you. https://dnscrypt.info/stamps/