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If your main goal is adblocking (or, generally, filtering requests by domain name), the adblock software package has a config option to "force local DNS". Othe

by vitus 6y ago

If your main goal is adblocking (or, generally, filtering requests by domain name), the adblock software package has a config option to "force local DNS". Otherwise you'll need to set up a firewall rule to redirect all DNS requests. https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/firewall/fw3_configurations/intercept_dns_luci https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/firewall/fw3_configurati... According to a sibling commenter, that alternative is also possible through Pi-Hole, although it looks like you need to configure a router to rewrite said traffic to point at it. (potentially also requiring the purchase of a $250 piece of additional hardware, at which point, why not just buy a router that supports OpenWRT?)

Havoc 6y ago
Thanks! Yeah I've got a pihole and an openwrt router (Nanopi R4S is amazing bang per buck btw) configured to point to the pihole. Yet some stuff is leaking past it (mainly iphone) hence my interest in forcing things. I suspect its connected to the fact that ipv6 resolves faster than ipv4 for me somehow but can't quite place what's wrong...because it is catching some ipv6 traffic so its not like the ipv6 pihole is broken broken. >Otherwise you'll need to set up a firewall rule to redirect all DNS requests. Yes...the whole chain concept openwrt has going is something I haven't wrapped my head around yet so no rule writing for now