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This app is not a firewall, it's a 'DNS sinkhole'. Any app can easily circumvent this "firewall" by simply falling back to hard coded public ips of their serve
by DavideNL 7y ago
This app is not a firewall, it's a 'DNS sinkhole'.
Any app can easily circumvent this "firewall" by simply falling back to hard coded public ips of their servers if the domain lookup doesn't work.
I'm not saying it's a bad app, but it's misleading to call their app a "firewall".
- lalos 7y agoTrue, firewall is for inbound connection. Thanks.
- laumars 7y agofirewalls are for both inbound and outbound connections. The GP's point is this isn't blocking network connections because you can still access the end point via IP. What this is doing is redirecting known domain names to a sink hole. Much like Pihole does.