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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by tfehring on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:04AM (#19171949)
One reason to care is that https://pi-hole.net is DNS-based.
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by alias_neo on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:11AM (#19172021)
This was how I found out actually, see my other comment for more detail, but yes, this is one very good reason we would want control over our DNS.
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