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Would a PiHole help here? If yes, again a good reason why every household should have such a DNS blocking device in their local network
by karxxm 5y ago
Would a PiHole help here? If yes, again a good reason why every household should have such a DNS blocking device in their local network
- clairity 5y agoa (full-featured) firewall is much better, especially if it can consume popular blocklists. piholes can't deal with hard-coded IPs or an integrated dns server that bypasses the pihole.
- noptd 5y agoAny recommendations on this front? I've been dreading the day that I'll have to deal with apps ignoring the pihole and using their own DNS servers, especially via https or TLS.
- clairity 5y agoyes, google and the like reportedly already do this, so pihole bypassing is already here. i bought a pepwave surf soho[0] a few years back, largely because it had a few other features (multi-homing, multi-wlan, robust vlan'ing, etc.) that i wanted due to my peculiar circumstances. it has limited blocklist support however, but does allow manual blocklist curation of arbitrary length, including cidr-formatted IP ranges. the main downside of this router is that it's 100mbps (actually ~120mbps)[1], but that's a limit i come close to very rarely in my day-to-day. as with smart tv's, it's frustrating how few good router options there are. [0]: https://www.peplink.com/products/pepwave-surf-soho/ https://www.peplink.com/products/pepwave-surf-soho/ [1]: note that this is sustained throughput, the ports are 1gbps. most consumer routers struggle to reach even this sustained rate.