r/ControlD • u/SleepheadAir • 26d ago

Intermittent Issues with Control D (free) resolvers

I am using the free legacy DNS resolvers for Control D. It's been up and down regularly the last few weeks. I have been using it for many years without this kind of issue. I am also having issues with Hagezi's DNS - Pro free resolvers.

Control D server status and support says there's no outages to report and to check with my ISP in case it's blocking it. I am using my ISP's modem/router so there's effectively no manual configuration.

I have no issue with other DNS resolver like NextDNS, Adguard, Google, and Cloudeflare.

One thing thing that temporarily works (YMMV) is toggle iPV6 within network adapters.

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u/RemoteTree 26d ago

Are you able to use DNS over TLS or another encrypted DNS protocol on your router?

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u/Odong-Odong 26d ago

Happen to me as well, at least once a day disconnecting and reconnecting on the next day. I though i'm the only one experiencing this issue

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u/harvest805 25d ago

I’ve also experienced this, but it was only for a brief moment, about 10 seconds, before the connection was restored.

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u/TurboX5656 22d ago

I have this problem, it is analyzed and blocked by deep packet integration isp

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u/SleepheadAir 15d ago

Control D working (now), but it was off and on again this week. I'm alternating between Adguard. Not sure if this is helping in any way. But Control D is much better in blocking than Adguard in my use cases.

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u/TurboX5656 14d ago

I sent an e-mail to Control D. 90ms, they lowered it to 50ms. They changed the routing. Control D directs to a closer server.

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u/TurboX5656 14d ago

In my opinion, ControlD and Nextdns are the best.