No, that is not how DNS blocking works. It doesn’t just avoid responding, it responds but with a response that says that the domain does not exist or one that points to a different IP address.
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Rooki@lemmy.world 7 months agoDoes it really do that? I thought if pi-hole blocks it, it just says nothing here, normally a pc then looks up your secondary dns and then ads are back at it.
This was my experience when i did that.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, your experience will be different if your DNS is being provided by another kind of DNS resolver. If you want a consistent pi-hole experience (and you can avoid downtime of your current pi-hole), add another pi-hole to your network and let that be your secondary DNS resolver.