Generally, no. Manufacturers just bake in a DNS server setting and it will only fail over if it can’t get to it.
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virku@lemmy.world 8 months agoI am about to set up a pi-hole in my network. Would that help with this scenario?
jecht360@lemmy.world 8 months ago
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The way to get around this is to have your router block outgoing dns requests to anything but your dns server (which I have my pihole do double duty for)
zelifcam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve come across devices where they will stop functioning or flood my network with DNS requests if they can’t reach their baked in addresses. I setup a redirect rule to handle that. ANY 53 request gets redirected to my DNS server. I’ve had similar issue with NTP and had to do the same.
droopy4096@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
not at all
anonymouse@lemmings.world 8 months ago
It depends. Using OPs scenario, if all data, ads and updates, are served from data.samsung.com, then the pi hole can’t help. But if ads are served from ads.samsung.com and updates from updates.samsung.com, then you can blacklist the ads while still receiving the updates.
My experience with a Vizio is that the pi is blocking a lot of the “phoning home” connections, but the ads seem to be integrated with the software that allows me to use apps, so I still see them when I use the TV’s apps. More and more though, I’m using the HDMI port with my HTPC.