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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: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Monday July 20 2020, @09:35PM
I have OpenWRT on a netgear nighthawk, with the Optus device behind it (so the nighthawk is between the NBN NTD and the Optus device)
Port forward (5000-5300) and DMZ to the optus device, so the VOIP phone still works (Optus do not give out the SIP passwords, even if you can find all the other settings settings - and there are screens after screens of configurations for SIP, and more than one user name and password..)
All other internet connections go through the nighthawk.
Sounds simple, but it took weeks to get working with inwards and outwards VOIP calls enabled.
DNS and port control and everything else can be managed in OpenWRT.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex