I'm just curious, what if I'd use my pi-hole to block all connections from/to China on my home network. I have a good bit of automation in place, but mostly western solutions, yet still I wouldn't be surprised if they called China. Have any of you tried this kind of experiment? Is it even possible to block? What gone down?

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

Pihole only does domain blocking. Let’s say spookydomain[.]cn resolves to 1.2.3.4. You could block spookydomain[.]cn through pihole but nothing would stop a computer from directly interacting via IP address or from the Chinese to buy spookydomain[.]org and evade the block. To do a true country block, you’d need to do it at the firewall and have up to date geoip data.

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