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by foobarbazetc 2621 days ago
There’s a way to redirect any port 53 traffic back to your pihole if you have enough control over the gateway, but I don’t know if it’s worth doing. Breaks a bunch of things you’d normally do to debug whatever.
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Been doing this a few years, after seeing lots of apps and devices using 8.8.8.8 despite being given my resolver back via DHCP (so obviously hard-coded into them and they’re ignoring os dns.)

No practical drawbacks so far, although I have found many “open resolvers” online from my home, only to realize it’s the redirection messing things up.

instead of redirecting you can log it so you can identify suspicious apps