My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

Post by scrollaway » Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 2:40 PM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #52

scrollaway wrote: post #14

I'm always shocked at how easy it is for people to fall into the "Google is evil!!1" trap on such trivial stuff (and funnily enough, much more serious privacy issues related to Google are ignored/downvoted). Hardcoded DNS servers are common. Extremely common in a bunch of IOT devices, given how broken some ISPs are. This is a non-story and the only reason it's being upvoted is because Google is doing it, and they als…

"Broken" ISP are likely to intercept DNS requests, so really the only option against them is something like DNS over HTTPS.

Post by fixermark » Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 2:41 PM UTC

bobthedino wrote: post #58

fixermark wrote: post #42

This guy sure is angry that his consumer electronics device is architected to be maximally convenient to set-up and use for the common user. He may want to consider an alternative product. Or use his 1337 hacker skills to modify his already-customized local routing configuration to just do the thing this consumer electronics device is assuming is standard (i.e. accessing services by IP on the Internet) by telling his…

Not sure what you meant by "1337 hacker skills" (sounds sarcastic to me) but the guy in question helped create the Domain Name System!

Post by mgoetzke » Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 2:43 PM UTC

apostacy wrote: post #43

scrollaway wrote: post #14

I'm always shocked at how easy it is for people to fall into the "Google is evil!!1" trap on such trivial stuff (and funnily enough, much more serious privacy issues related to Google are ignored/downvoted). Hardcoded DNS servers are common. Extremely common in a bunch of IOT devices, given how broken some ISPs are. This is a non-story and the only reason it's being upvoted is because Google is doing it, and they als…

This isn't a case of an IOT device though. My Chromecast went through massive amount of trouble to use Google's DNS servers, to serve ads behind my pi-hole. It would respect all of my DHCP parameters, but silently ignore DNS settings. It was clearly intentional to serve ads. I had to set up a firewall to force it to use my DNS server. And eventually even that stopped working with an update (which themselves are reall…

Post by yardstick » Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 2:46 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #64

dragonwriter wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> this is a $30 device to hook up TVs, Nitpick, but more like $70; you may be confusing Chromecast Ultra with the base Chromecast.

Yes, you're correct. The Chromecast Ultra isn't sold here in Europe so I didn't make the connection.

Post by rmoriz » Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

mgoetzke wrote: post #65

apostacy wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't a case of an IOT device though. My Chromecast went through massive amount of trouble to use Google's DNS servers, to serve ads behind my pi-hole. It would respect all of my DHCP parameters, but silently ignore DNS settings. It was clearly intentional to serve ads. I had to set up a firewall to force it to use my DNS server. And eventually even that stopped working with an update (which themselves are reall…

how is it showing you ads ? Haven't seen any yet.