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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by m-p-3 on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:27PM (#13860069)
Some devices like the Chromecast and some Chromebook do not use your network DNS settings by default and rely on 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 for DNS queries.
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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by dredmorbius on Monday March 13, 2017 @07:02PM (#13863367)
Firewall rewrite rules, direct to the DNS server of your choice.

IP (and BGP) are ultimately concensus realities.

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Re:Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements by 24gttghh on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:41PM (#13860233)
Seems like one could block google's DNS servers -or perhaps even all DNS requests not destined for your pi-hole server in this example- on the router side and the Chromecast will fallback to what DHCP is providing.
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