Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
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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
#2Won'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.
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#3Won'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.
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#4Won'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.
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#5Won'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.
Same on DoH.
I can’t filter it or redirect it like I can with plain old DNS.
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#6Can confirm, pihole is great. I put in two for redundancy, helps make sure nothing gets through. No negative impact on network perf, as it only touches DNS and plenty fast for that.
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#7Won'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.
Have your gateway/firewall block all traffic from the LAN IP of the device from exiting the LAN.
If it's running on Win/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS, block the app from talking to the gateway, or even the entire LAN.
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#8I would like to use Adguard Home instead of Pi Hole for better up stream DNS query.
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#9Won'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.
What is a DoH server?
Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
#10Won'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.
Have you tried blocking them explicitly? That might cause them to fall back through the advertised ones.