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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 1 week 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 1 week ago (5 children)

I tried that once, pihole blocks stuff coming in and not going out. Many “smart” devices will freak out if they can send things out to the internet but cannot receive things back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pihole doesn't block inbound traffic, it has nothing to do with it (as you mention in your later comment, DNS is about address lookups, not routing IP addresses).

PiHole is a DNS server, all it will do is resolve addresses for clients that use it.

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