Blocked that hard-coded google dns garbage.
Is this to block ads?
No, you can block ads with a pihole. This is because Roku hard codes its dns server as 8.8.8.8. Pihole doesn’t handle IP addresses, only DNS.
Interesting. I set an adblocking dns via DHCP and, as far as I know, the Roku respects it. Ads are blocked and I can see it failing to delivery telemetry in my dns logs (most persistent thing on the network).
I set a rule to catch outside dns to see if anything, the roku included, has been misbehaving.
I doubt it but could this help my tv randomly crashing
It’s genuinely so annoying and is such a 2023 problem
Tv crashing? Add an external device and don’t use TVs for their smart features as they tend to be pretty bad.
Not familiar with Rokus, but it depends on what your filtering. Mostly it’s to block needless analytics tracking. I use a pair of PiHoles for much the same purpose.
I have a firewall rule to dst-nat any outgoing DNS requests not coming from piHole back to the piHole server. That way all devices on the LAN are forced to use piHole for DNS and can’t bypass it. I don’t have an OPNSense firewall but I would think it should be able to do that as well.
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I setup a NAT rule that redirects anything going to the Google DNS IP’s send sends it to my own DNS server.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System IP Internet Protocol NAT Network Address Translation PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
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Good bot
Hey man, can you share some resources that you followed to configure Opnsense as VM. I am in the same situation, bought a firewall, that I want to use as a hypervisor but didn’t configure yet the Opnsense and would love to educate myself more on the matter.
