Won't be long now until IoT and other crap-ware devices catch on to this trend and start hard-coding DNS servers in code, or worse, using DNS encryption to avoid this sort of routine blocking by end-users. I wonder how people are thinking about solving this problem.
Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
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Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I already translate all port 53 traffic to my local resolver and block known DoH addresses.
If they're really evil, they'd proxy all traffic through a single host (eg. d2v3i0u0qtn52v.cloudfront.net), so you have to choose between no IOT features, or getting subjected to all the ads/telemetry.
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#23Won't be long now until IoT and other crap-ware devices catch on to this trend and start hard-coding DNS servers in code, or worse, using DNS encryption to avoid this sort of routine blocking by end-users. I wonder how people are thinking about solving this problem.
Not sure what potential issues are are being mentioned here, but I'd say a separate VLAN for IoT devices + QoS [0] should rule out most of the concerns.
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#24Won't be long now until IoT and other crap-ware devices catch on to this trend and start hard-coding DNS servers in code, or worse, using DNS encryption to avoid this sort of routine blocking by end-users. I wonder how people are thinking about solving this problem.
This is already happening. The likes of Google Home et al already hardcode their own servers. I noticed that no DNS requests were being made through my Pi Hole, so when I looked, it turned out their DNS servers were hardcoded. However, I'm more worried about when they start hardcoding DoH servers.
But if the network outright blocks random DNS requests, that only leaves DoH, which would require fixed IPs, which should be able to be detected and blocked, right?
Sure, the setup becomes a bit more involved...
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#25I would like to use Adguard Home instead of Pi Hole for better up stream DNS query.
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#26Won't be long now until IoT and other crap-ware devices catch on to this trend and start hard-coding DNS servers in code, or worse, using DNS encryption to avoid this sort of routine blocking by end-users. I wonder how people are thinking about solving this problem.
One of many reasons why I don’t even bother with IoT devices. Don’t need all this crap to be connected to wifi. There was nothing wrong with it before.
In my opinion, additional being a curios software engineer I find it quite interesting.
Necessary? Perhaps not but helpful.
Heating valves for example.
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#27I would like to use Adguard Home instead of Pi Hole for better up stream DNS query.
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#28While the interface may not be as pretty, you can do the same thing if you're running pfsense using the pfblocker-ng package: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocke... You can also so geo-based IP blocking Combined with pfsense's recursive resolved (unbound), it makes for a pretty great home dns setup.
Jokes aside, I'd love a blog post on this. Seriously. Very likely to apply the knowledge as well.
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#29https://github.com/boostchicken-dev/udm-utilities/tree/maste...