Blocked that hard-coded google dns garbage.

  • Illiterate Domine
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      Well, I’m back and can confirm the sneaky DNS resolver. I have two roku devices and they both were making requests to 8.8.8.8.

      Thanks for this post! TIL.

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      1 year ago

      I doubt it but could this help my tv randomly crashing

      It’s genuinely so annoying and is such a 2023 problem

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        1 year ago

        Tv crashing? Add an external device and don’t use TVs for their smart features as they tend to be pretty bad.