Windows 11 problems with DNS protection...

[gesokynu]

Microsoft Store and Windows Update do not work until I disable Adguard. All the days of updates then come pouring in. It has to be the DNS, I am not filtering any of those processes. All I can think of to do is try to add a bunch of update servers to the DNS exclusions.

Is Adguard a DNS proxy, just a DNS filter, or neither? I was considering adding Adguard VPN, but I have to know it's going to reliably hijack all local DNS. Adguard for Windows by itself has shown it is not capable of this. It will query DoH queries if Windows is configured to use encryption...i.e. it will send a DNS query to another DNS server to its configured DNS server. Pretty dumb. If Windows is set to default gateway DNS, then all kinds of queries from various services and such get past it and go to the router. This is a lose-lose situation.

Adding the VPN might solve the situation, if it locks down all DNS.

And can someone tell me what the hell redirect driver mode is?

Thanks.

 

[gesokynu]

It was HTTPS filtering, not DNS, that was causing problems. If anyone wants the exceptions to make Store and Update work let me know.

 

[snerd]

I checked and both work for me, with https filtering enabled.

 

[gesokynu]

I checked and both work for me, with https filtering enabled.

Sorry for the delay in response, you are running the latest Windows 11 build? Pro edition? The default HTTPS settings have never worked for me on Windows 11. Microsoft Store will give an error code, and WIndows Update won't even do that, it just pretends to be working. I don't know, it might depend on what servers are being used at a particular location.