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Can you provide the URLs so we can use pihole to block the requests?

by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago

boogies 6y ago
(off-topic) What’re the advantages of pihole over /etc/hosts?
- _underfl0w_ 6y ago
  They both work similarly if you're using them to block outbound requests, but a Pi-Hole would intercept and block outbound requests for every device on the network where it's installed, whereas editing /etc/hosts would only block requests on a single device (unless that device is your router, I guess?)
- garblegarble 6y ago
  >(off-topic) What’re the advantages of pihole over /etc/hosts? It's good for cases exactly like this - devices where you don't have control over /etc/hosts (or where you have lots of them and don't want to keep the hosts files in sync). I use it for my Samsung TV to keep them from phoning home (but still letting me use apps) Edit: you can also set up a DoH endpoint and filter traffic while also allowing Encrypted SNI to work
  - thaumasiotes 6y ago
    > It's good for cases exactly like this - devices where you don't have control over /etc/hosts Is the pihole a DNS server or a firewall? Sibling comments suggest it's a DNS server, but that doesn't answer this need at all -- if you don't control /etc/hosts, you don't control the device. It can do its resolution however it wants. Most obviously, it can include the domain names you don't want it to reach in its own /etc/hosts file, which you just said you didn't control.
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  That it works for all devices on your network. Even ones that don't have an etc/hosts :)
- stock_toaster 6y ago
  In addition to sibling replies which point out network-wide usefulness... pihole (or any dns server) can/will return NXDOMAIN instead /etc/hosts which will only return an ip. A dns server can also be configured to match a domain and any subdomain (wildcard match) without having to specify each entry individually.

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Can you provide the URLs so we can use pihole to block the requests?

by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago

Can you provide the URLs so we can use pihole to block the requests?

boogies 6y ago
(off-topic) What’re the advantages of pihole over /etc/hosts?
- _underfl0w_ 6y ago
  They both work similarly if you're using them to block outbound requests, but a Pi-Hole would intercept and block outbound requests for every device on the network where it's installed, whereas editing /etc/hosts would only block requests on a single device (unless that device is your router, I guess?)
- garblegarble 6y ago
  >(off-topic) What’re the advantages of pihole over /etc/hosts? It's good for cases exactly like this - devices where you don't have control over /etc/hosts (or where you have lots of them and don't want to keep the hosts files in sync). I use it for my Samsung TV to keep them from phoning home (but still letting me use apps) Edit: you can also set up a DoH endpoint and filter traffic while also allowing Encrypted SNI to work
  - thaumasiotes 6y ago
    > It's good for cases exactly like this - devices where you don't have control over /etc/hosts Is the pihole a DNS server or a firewall? Sibling comments suggest it's a DNS server, but that doesn't answer this need at all -- if you don't control /etc/hosts, you don't control the device. It can do its resolution however it wants. Most obviously, it can include the domain names you don't want it to reach in its own /etc/hosts file, which you just said you didn't control.
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  That it works for all devices on your network. Even ones that don't have an etc/hosts :)
- stock_toaster 6y ago
  In addition to sibling replies which point out network-wide usefulness... pihole (or any dns server) can/will return NXDOMAIN instead /etc/hosts which will only return an ip. A dns server can also be configured to match a domain and any subdomain (wildcard match) without having to specify each entry individually.