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 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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