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The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

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How practical is it to block everything by default? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've just set up my pihole and I'm considering the best way to configure it. Is it a good idea to set the default group to block (almost) all domains and then manually add trusted devices to another group with a "normal" block list? My use case is untrustworthy devices that I don't want phoning home but which might change their IP address.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Does it? I don't know much about networking but I thought for a device to even send something out it still needs to go through DNS first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No it does not go through a DNS on the way out. A DNS, or domain name server, is like a phonebook so people can put in whatever.whereever and get the IP address back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, so to reach out does it not need to use DNS to know where it's reaching out to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

No it can just send stuff to an IP