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> immediately black holed its MAC address at the router. Hoe does this compare with blocking traffic with a PiHole?
by jumelles 6y ago
> immediately black holed its MAC address at the router.
Hoe does this compare with blocking traffic with a PiHole?
- RamRodification 6y agoIf I'm not misunderstanding things, a PiHole only "works" if the device actually use it for DNS. If the device uses hardcoded (or whatever) DNS-servers the lookups will bypass your PiHole.
- saxonww 6y agoThink about this alongside the network layering models (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model). A pi-hole operates (usually) by intercepting DNS requests and returning bogus results if the request is for a known ad host. That's an application layer activity; other requests for non-ad (or unknown ad) hosts would succeed. So a pi-hole blocks some application layer activity but not all. MAC addresses are a link layer concept, and a router is a network layer device. Having a MAC address blocked at a router would prevent that MAC address from using the router's function, which in this context means that the device holding that MAC address (the tv) would be unable to send and receive data through the router at all; the TV would be unable to access any site on the internet, ad-related or not. Depending on what other devices you have on your local network which you might want to use with your TV, it might be easier to just not plug the TV into the network at all.