halcyondays@midwest.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.English
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1 year agoLG TVs use hard coded 8.8.8.8, so make sure you’re using a dst NAT to reroute anything other than your pihole attempting port 53 outbound back to the pihole (then src NAT the responses so they look like they came from the queried server).
Not sure if that’s common with other manufacturers, but in general it’s a good idea to not trust that devices will always use the distributed DNS.
Seen a few mentions of ad blocking, but I’ll throw one more option out there - DNS servers that block malware and c2 domains. I use quad9 as the upstream for my pihole, but cloudflare’s 1.1.1.2 is an option as well.