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pi-hole uses DNS, and will give out fake ip addresses based on the name lookup.

Unfortunately it is NOT a firewall.

Any device can easily do its own DNS like DoH (dns over https), nnot involve pihole in name lookups, and send package directly to the destination ip address.




I used to have a rule on my firewall to redirect all internal 53/udp dns traffic to my local DNS server for just this reason. But with DoH, there’s really not much one can do to ensure a device is behaving without completely null routing that device.




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