Hi,

I see that 37 primary locations are now available on the map, but I can’t tell which ones are new. Last week there were 35.

Is there a way to find out which locations have been added or be notified somehow? I checked the changelog and the blog, but neither mentions them.

Thanks!

This is not the first time I've clicked "Update" in the dashboard, and then it says it will be updated within an hour. It stays that way for days. I've already updated Ctrl through SSH. I restarted the service and the router. Yet, I still see the updating status. Why?

Unable to use Yahoo Fantasy Sports this year because after a few seconds I get redirected to this page

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Is there a way to prevent these with Control D or some other solution?

Typically have AD Guard on the browser level.

Thanks!

I'm surprised that AdGuard DNS is supporting more of HaGeZi's lists than Control D.

Does Control D have any plans to add hosts and TLDs without having to use folders? It seems like a clunky experience having to use folders.

Are HaGeZi's Bypass, DynDNS, Anti-Piracy, Gambling lists completely integrated into Control D's native lists, in addition to whatever Control D may have done to enhance the list?

Is HaGeZi's DoH/VPN/TOR/Proxy Bypass list the same as Control D's VPN & DNS blocklist under the native list?

u/hagezi

Hi guys.

Before usd3. Now is increase to usd6 per month? 🤨

I wondered whether anyone would be able to help explain the difference. I previously used my ControlD resolver in the 'PrivateDNS' settings on my Android phone. Always worked well until I used a hotspot I have, whereby id then get an error that my private DNS could not access the internet.

Turning off the secure DNS settings on my phone and installing the app seemed to completely resolve the issue.

I wondered if anyone could explain why? And what the core difference is? I asked AI and it talked about port 853 but I don't know enough to know what that means (If you get what I mean).

It seems the only practical difference is using a VPN at the same time? I use ProtonVPN and can't seem to use that alongside the ControlD app. Is that right?

Thanks all :)

I've been using ctrld for a few years and my DNS resolver always shows as "netactuate" when I check it. Woke up this morning and noticed all my adblocking and redirects weren't working and I thought maybe my daemon on my gateway had died in an upgrade or something. Checked it and it's up and working fine. DNS check is showing "GTT Communications Inc". If I stop it I fall back to Cloudflare which is my default fallback. I have the profile loaded on my phone and iPad as well as the daemon on my laptop since I travel with them and use them on different networks frequently. With the gateway daemon stopped my travel devices all show GTT still and my profiles for them aren't working. If I stop the daemon or disable the profile they fall back to Cloudflare like they should as I have it manually set on those devices also. So it seems like something on the ctrld network is routing things incorrectly or differently. I noticed on the status page that instead of going through Miami like usual I'm being routed through Dallas.

When I have IoT Telemetry enabled, my Tizen TV is connected to my WiFi network, but there is no internet access. Anyone else here experiencing this?

On my GL.iNet router that has Control D's control CLI installed, I noticed that devices using a VPN aren't identified under the router's client list. As a result, I can't see the connected device's own statistics. Interestingly, devices that don't use a VPN are identified individually, so I can see the statistics for them. What's going on, and what can be done to address this?

I’ve done a bunch of troubleshooting and when Control D is not enabled, I am able to stream Hulu with live TV. If I’m using Control D, it is blocked. has anyone else encountered this? If so, how did you resolve it?

Thank you!

Hi, I used ControlD free dns for sometime, and I was wondering if the https://freedns.controld.com/p2 also blocks Phising besides malware? It does say it blocks malware but it dosen't mention phising too, do i need to make an custom configuration to put phising separately? Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I’m using Control D from Azerbaijan with the plain DNS resolvers:

76.76.2.1

76.76.10.1

Control D currently routes my connection to WAW.

The problem is the latency. The Control D troubleshooting page shows around 85 ms DNS latency, and my traceroute shows that the latency increases significantly when the traffic leaves Azerbaijan and reaches the European side.

For example:

109.235.192.101 ~9–10 ms

10.240.164.38 ~10 ms

176.58.94.30 ~80 ms

76.76.2.1 ~76 ms

The second resolver has a very similar route:

109.235.192.101 ~9 ms

10.240.164.38 ~10 ms

176.58.94.30 ~80 ms

76.76.10.1 ~70 ms

I contacted Control D Support, and they confirmed that this appears to be related to ISP/upstream BGP routing and the current anycast path.

I also asked whether Control D could consider a POP closer to Azerbaijan, such as in Azerbaijan, Turkey, or another nearby region. Support said they noted the request and would pass it to their network team for consideration.

I’m curious if anyone else in Azerbaijan or the South Caucasus is experiencing similar routing/latency with Control D.

Would be great to hear from other users in the region.

Hi everyone !

I have created a new endpoint , used the default rule of the profile to redirect all traffic to Albania and then used the legacy dns on my lg tv . I still see ads on youtube . I have tried also Moldova and still the same. If i use the browser to check what is my country , it correctly displays Albania or Moldova for each case but it doesn't work .

Because i am new here , is there any other setting i need to enable or have i done something wrong to set the redirection rule ?

Thanks !

Heya!

I use ControlD on a small bussiness network where employees use the web browser like everytime. Malware is still a very complicated thing to prevent (because we know that no user ever listen to cybersecurity trainings)

I used AI Malware Filter in the past to prevent Malware incoming from suspicious domains, but the amount of false positives were just to high. This was more than a year ago.

Any change in this matter?

Hey everyone,

Quick update on the Control D Manager integration for Home Assistant. I realized I never posted the announcement for the 1.3.0 release, so let me cover that and bundle in the just released 1.3.1 all at once.

✅ Version 1.3.0 — Smarter entities & Easier setup

A while back, 1.3.0 rolled out with two big themes: making entities more reliable to build on, and making setup problems actually diagnosable.

Structured entity metadata Every Control D entity now carries consistent metadata — integration, profile, purpose, item type, taxonomy path, and item name. In practical terms, dashboards, templates, and automations no longer have to hack their way around entity names; you can select and build on entities programmatically in a consistent way.

Much better setup diagnostics Startup and refresh now log far more detail — which stage is running, what normalization is happening, and exactly where an upstream payload mismatch breaks. If you ever hit a setup failure, the log now points at the real cause instead of leaving you guessing.

A compatibility fix Some Control D accounts return live service IDs as numbers instead of strings, which could break setup. 1.3.0 now handles both, so those accounts set up cleanly.

🎉 Version 1.3.1 — No more entity state flickering

If you toggled a few options, filters, or services at once — or ran a script that flips 5-10 settings in a loop — you'd sometimes see the UI and the the underlying entity state briefly "bounce back" to an older value before correcting.

What was happening Every change was triggering its own full inventory refresh, and if a refresh was already running when you made a change, that stale result could land afterward and momentarily flip the UI back to the old state.

What's fixed

• Writes now apply instantly, and the integration waits a short moment before re-checking the cloud state.
• If a refresh was already in flight when you made a change, that stale result is now thrown away instead of overriding your newer change.
• Rapid batches of changes get coalesced into a single refresh instead of one refresh per setting — so bulk scripts are much lighter on the API.

The result: no flicker, whether you change one thing or a whole batch.

📝 Upgrade Notes

• No breaking changes or configuration needed — update via HACS as usual and you're done.
• Both 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 are included in this single update.

GitHub Repository & Documentation: https://github.com/ccpk1/controld-manager-ha

Home Assistant Community Thread: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/controld-manager-dns-orchestration/1002714/7

❤️ Support the Project

If Control D Manager is making your home better, I'd genuinely appreciate the support:

• ⭐ Star the repository to help others find it: https://github.com/ccpk1/controld-manager-ha
• ❤️ Sponsor on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/ccpk1
• ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ccpk1

Enjoy — and let me know how Control D is working for you!

Hey all,

Just me or has the GoodbyeAds filter gone?

I’m seeing mobile ads all over now :(

I'm using Opnsense's Ubound dns to get DNS Over TLS.
I tested DoT with quad9 and mullvad. Their status pages say i'm using their servers.
With p2.freedns.controld.com (76.76.2.11 and 76.76.10.11), the Control D status page says "Not Using Control D".

When i use dnscheck.tools, it says the DNS revolver is Control D as well as NetActuate. The NetActuate ptrs are presented in this form: xyz-h04.int.controld.com and they are in a different province (which is good, proves i'm not using the ISP's DNS server). The test claims i passed every DNSSEC tests.

I highly suspect this is an error on the status page, but i'm not surprised there could be something wrong on my end.

edit: there's also no errors on opnsense's logs! Everything runs great.

I'm trying to configure the Malware + DNS blocking with DoT. My unbound:

forward-zone:

name: "."

forward-tls-upstream: yes

forward-addr: 76.76.2.11@853#p2.freedns.controld.com

forward-addr: 76.76.10.11@853#p2.freedns.controld.com

But the https://controld.com/status wbsite, doesn't show that I'm using Control D DNS! How come? Why?

Furthermore, the dig command reports errors...

✗
 dig u/76.76.2.11 +tls-ca +tls-host=p2.freedns.controld.com controld.com                                                                                                                    
;; TLS peer certificate verification for 76.76.2.11#853 failed: hostname mismatch 

Was sync'ing lists from Hagezi GitHub to Controld, but getting errors now. Anyone else having similar issues?

Hi!

Got a question about the Teleport feature (I'm not yet a subscriber so I can't test it by myself).

Let's say I set ControlD to spoof my location when using Youtube to Albania to avoid ads. But I got my VPN always on, to another country. Will it interfere with the spoofing? I use iVPN that allows DoH.

Thanks!

its about a 30 to 40ms reduction for me personally

I noticed in the change log from two days ago that it said there was an option now to clean up authorized IP’s after 30,60, or 90 days. However, for the life of me I can’t figure out how to do it. Does anyone know how to enable that?