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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 20 2020, @02:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the taking-back-your-hardware dept.

Sorry Telstra but this is my F@ST 5355 router:

Roughly a week ago I decided to give https://pi-hole.net/ a go having endured yet another ad laden website. All went we'll[sic], installation was smooth and was up and running 15 minutes later.

All that remained was to set my routers(sic) DNS server to the pi's and my home devices would be safe. I remember seeing the option in there for it.

WTF, it was now disabled. A quick google around revealed that about a year ago (June 2017) Telstra simply decided to remove that functionality.

Surely it had nothing to do with the Australian government implementing DNS based censorship in June 2017?

So fuck you Telstra, that's my router you made me purchase. Time to find out how to take it back.


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  • (Score: 2) by Revek on Monday July 20 2020, @04:37PM (1 child)

    by Revek (5022) on Monday July 20 2020, @04:37PM (#1024154)

    If it you can set it to bridging mode do so and pass all traffic to a router. If not can you disable dhcp on the router? Otherwise you will have to be double NATed.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday July 20 2020, @04:47PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday July 20 2020, @04:47PM (#1024161)

    I wonder how much headache double NAT presents in the real world.

    We setup a VM at work that bounced its network traffic through the host before hitting the local network - just that extra hop triggered alarm bells in the corporate routers - they went into panic mode and everybody's phones died until we walked down to IT to explain what happened.

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