My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by arbitrage on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:06PM (#19172573)

First they came for the appliances I don't want or need, because I don't use appliances I don't want or need.

This has been discussed to death. Slippery slope, etc., etc.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by pexaizix on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:33PM (#19172843)

I disagree. People who care about not hitting 8.8.8.8 simply do not own a Chromecast.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by justizin on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:43PM (#19176930)

This is patently false, as Paul Vixie, who created DNS, clearly owns one.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by lostlogin on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:21PM (#19173323)

I own one and have bought three. Cloudflare DNS for me (via a Pihole).

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by fonosip on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:22PM (#19177049)

You have to masquerade at your router. Or at the vpn. For example https://ba.net/adblock/vpn/roku-chromecast-fix.html

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by lostlogin on Sunday February 17, 2019 @11:38AM (#19185276)

Thanks.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by snowwindwaves on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:46PM (#19173553)

are you internally masquerading 8.8.8.8 to 1.1.1.1?

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by lostlogin on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:33PM (#19174453)

I just pointed the Pihole at 1.1.1.1 and added 8.8.8.8 to the block list. The Chromecast works fine with it. Not sure if the Pihole does something clever though? I’m very sure that the Chromecast does but I can see it’s traffic on the Pihole.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by angusp on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:14PM (#19173233)

Not really, before you could firewall it off from the rest of your network - though now you can just masquerade 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to your DNS server of choice

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by tiew9Vii on Saturday February 16, 2019 @12:02AM (#19177169)

I run an OpenBSD router with PF:

pass in quick on { $lan $wireguard } proto udp to { 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 } port 53 rdr-to 192.168.2.1

Locally I run Unbound for caching, local dns zones and ad/malware domain blocking[2]. I have a DNS forwarder in Unbound configured to a local Stubby[1] instance that does dns over tls to Cloudflare.

Having done "big data" contract work for the largest telco in my current country of residence who are some of the worst skilled people I have ever work with, your local ISP is highly likely abusing your DNS history profiling your household for various questionable things just as much as Google. At least with Cloudflare they have a clear privacy policy[3] and I have faith their technical skill to anonymize data and use it can't be as bad as my ISP.

[1] https://dnsprivacy.org/wiki/display/DP/DNS+Privacy+Daemon+-+... [2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [3] https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/commitment-to-priv...

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by pixl97 on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:53PM (#19173617)

Until Google implements DNS over TLS and does cert checking.

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