• General
  • [Feature Request] DNS Switch / Secondary DNS

Hi,

I find it quite depressing that there is still no opportunity to set a secondary DNS as private DNS in Android. Hence, you have to decide between your local resolver in WiFi, falling back to your ISP automatically once you are out of range (mobile network) OR a constant connection to an external server.

There are a few workarounds for that such as ...

  • third party apps, auto switchers
  • control everything by routing through a VPN
  • set a specific DNS in the DHCP settings for your WiFi connection

... that either require root (3rd party apps), draw more power and add further technical dependencies (VPN) or simply do not work since the private DNS setting overwrittes everything else (also WiFI DHCP).

Would it be possible to add a simple switch or even a secondary layer as fallback private DNS to GOS so you do not have to fiddle around with all of this and manually change the settings all the time when changing the network?

I hope I am not asking for too much and would really appreciate it if there would be some wriggle room for such a feature without making too much effort.

Thank you and have a nice day. :)

    • [deleted]

    SquirrelMaster
    There is an option to set private DNS in settings/ Network and Internet.

    There is also an option to set your preferable DNS in Vanadium.

    With this - if I am not mistaken - you can have two DNS set and you can use one DNS with Vanadium and the second one in other browser.

    I probably do not understand what you are trying to achieve...

      [deleted]
      My aim is to have two different system-wide DNS:
      1) local server in my WiFi network
      2) external (public) server for mobile network

      I can set 1) as private DNS. But once I leave my local network, the DNS automatically falls back to the mobile ISP default since 1) is not available anymore. This could be prevented by adding a secondary DNS, like most modern network interfaces do offer. The secondary DNS will be the public server 2), that will also be accessible via mobile network.

      a year later

      Is this still relevant in latest GOS? I know this issue is how Androids been designed, not really GOS. I would like to have an option for system wide DNS for both IPv4 and IPv6, both for WiFi and Mobile networks. Why is it so hard to implement... On desktops you can easily do this but not mobile. And I am talking about being able to set your own dns resolver, not connecting to Google, CloudFlare, q9 etc