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smeg@feddit.uk 3 months agoWhat games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?
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smeg@feddit.uk 3 months agoWhat games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?
Geodad@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I mainly play Final Fantasy XIV. I assume they don’t hit up DNS, but they’re not open source, so we can only hope they don’t.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 months ago
My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)