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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: 3, Interesting) by DavePolaschek on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:01PM (1 child)

    by DavePolaschek (6129) on Tuesday July 21 2020, @01:01PM (#1024553) Homepage Journal

    And if that forces the pi-hole to use its own dns, next time you run an update, the pi-hole will reboot, and there will be no DNS for it to use when it’s restarting, and you will have a brick. Ask me how I discovered that problem.

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  • (Score: 2) by Fishscene on Saturday July 25 2020, @12:07AM

    by Fishscene (4361) on Saturday July 25 2020, @12:07AM (#1026021)

    The idea is that *nothing* bypasses the last DNS server under your control.

    In the setup I was trying to describe:
    PiHole > |Router Firewall that blocks ALL DNS requests unless they are destined for the router itself| > Router DNS > Whatever the heck you want.

    This allows for filtering, and if you use your router for DHCP, you *still* get name resolution for clients and servers on your network.

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