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BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yes, you can setup a DNS server to redirect these requisitions to the servers. However you’ll have to make sure that every single device is using the DNS server you configured.

You can also configure avahi (on linux) or other zeroconf (you must find out what zeroconf each other system have, cause I don’t know) to recognize local hostnames as mDNS

I use avahi to discover my octopi.local in my network and it works like a charm

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Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have my router point everything through my DNS servers, a main one and a backup on a pi3b, so that shouldn’t be an issue.

Except for Wifey. She hates ad blocking with a passion, so I’ve set her phones to use Google DNS servers.

Wifey also does not care one jot for what I’m playing with, it’s mainly my 13 year old ATM. Wifey likes having TV shows appear when they air in the States and that’s it.

She’s an odd one but I love her a great deal

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- BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  With AdGuard Home you can set your wife’s devices to bypass protection. Just set her devices to static ip and set a custom rule like:
  
  @@||*^$client=127.0.0.1
  
  Where 127.0.0.1 must be changed for her ip address. This rule means:
  
  @@|| = unblock *^ = everything $client = for this client
  
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  - Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Wow, I’m glad you speak Adguard, thanks for this
    
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  - 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    AdGuard Home supports static clients. Unless the instance is being used over TCP (port 53, unencrypted), it is by far the better way to use clientnames in the DNS server addresses and unblock the clients over that.
    
    For DoT: clientname.dns.yourdomain.com
    For DoH: https://dns.yourdomain.com/dns-query/clientname
    
    A client, especially a mobile one, can simply not guarantee always having the same IP address.
    
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- rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Avahi basically broqdcasts to the whole network “hello there, my name is some-cool-domain.local”. When you request that address, your router checks if someone broadcasts that name and uses their IP if so.
  
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