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I run Pi-Hole DNS and Windows 10 is extremely noisy. I'd say half of my top 'blocked domains' are Microsoft owned, and there's only one part-time Windows machin
by zelon88 8y ago
I run Pi-Hole DNS and Windows 10 is extremely noisy. I'd say half of my top 'blocked domains' are Microsoft owned, and there's only one part-time Windows machine on my network.
- cptskippy 8y agoI guess it depends on what's on your network. Here's my top blocked devices (https://i.imgur.com/TQxvnmi.png https://i.imgur.com/TQxvnmi.png) Roku devices are far and away the noisiest devices on my network. Android seems pretty awful too, the higher the version number the more noisy it gets. All of my Windows machines are running with the lowest level of telemetry that Microsoft permits you to set, I don't use any of those reg hacks hosted on github. Interestingly a Windows 7 laptop is much noisier than a Windows 10 laptop. Surprisingly Windows Server 2012r2 makes the shit list too. What's strange though is an always on Windows 10 desktop isn't even on the list. Interestingly Amazon Echo and Google Nest DNS traffic is rarely blocked despite them being the top clients (behind Roku) by a fair margin.
- esotericn 8y agoI mean, yeah, everything is kind of crappy. The DNS logs for my home network are full of proprietary stuff. All of my actual work systems do queries when I use them and that's it. Extremely rarely there'll be a hit out to NTP. It's quite amusing, because by percentage, the systems I use 8 hours a day are barely even represented in the logs (contrast with my Android phone attempting to hit Google DNS and being prevented by the firewall, over and over, _forever_.)
- jammygit 8y agoI used to have a s8 with a firewall. Every 2 minutes it blocked a connection attempt to google 24/7...