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Comment by stevepike

As someone who recently set up a pihole, I was shocked that it was possible to redirect all DNS requests on the network (in plain text!) to the pi. I did the method where you set up a network firewall at the router level that redirects all port 53 traffic to the pi. It's a nice feature for getting my xbox filtered, but it really felt like an insecure historical quirk rather than a feature we should be praising.

Surely it's progress for devices to be able to securely access name servers? I can't snoop on the network traffic going over https but somehow I can get a list of all names queried?

parent stevepike 6 years ago

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