Firefox is nuking NextDNS with over 20k queries a day.

I tried giving NextDNS a shot. So far it looks great. My only problem it has 300k query limit for free in a month. I tried investigating the source of problem by looking a bit into about:networking and found out many queries has time to live of 300 seconds. I tried turning nextdns cache boost off and on but it made no difference. In order to reduce number of queries i send i set network.dns.get-ttl false (i don’t know if it relevant since i am using DNS-over-https), network.dnsCacheEntries 1000, network.dnsCacheExpiration/network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod= 43200. While this setting sometimes apply to one or two queries occasionally it was pretty much ignored most of the time. I am on windows 10 and using arkenfox user.js. Does anyone have any idea how i can force a higher ttl on dns cache?

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We recommend not using arkenfox user.js, as it can cause difficult to diagnose issues in Firefox. If you use arkenfox user.js, make sure to read the wiki. If you encounter issues with arkenfox, ask questions on their issues page. They can help you better than most members here, as they are the people developing the repository. Good luck!

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