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> 66.6% of all traffic is blocked I hear things like this a lot from PiHole users. But it's incorrect. Correct would be: 66.6% of DNS requests have been block
by dark-star 1y ago
> 66.6% of all traffic is blocked
I hear things like this a lot from PiHole users. But it's incorrect.
Correct would be: 66.6% of DNS requests have been blocked. This says nothing about the actual volume of traffic/data that has been blocked
- pnw 1y ago66% would indicate that OP may have a device repeatedly trying to resolve a blocked query with no reasonable backoff logic. In my case, a single "smart light" in my house hammers iot-auth-global.aliyuncs.com all day, every day. Three other identical lights running the same firmware don't however.
- kube-system 1y ago66.6% of traffic per DNS request is a metric of network traffic. You could measure by bandwidth, by number of packets, by number of sessions, etc. There are many measurements one could use, and DNS requests is one of them. It would probably be irrelevant for other purposes but isn't a crazy measurement given this context. It would be pretty difficult to measure by more typical measures (e.g. bandwidth) because if you block DNS resolution you don't know the size of the resources you are blocking...