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A Pi-Hole with Comcast #90

Closed john-science closed 5 years ago

john-science commented 5 years ago

Try it out, and see how it goes.

mwoolweaver commented 5 years ago

Out of curiosity did you manage to figure out dhcp & dns settings on the Comcast equipment?

john-science commented 5 years ago

@mwoolweaver Actually, I gave up. I know someone that got it working in like 5 minutes. But everything I tried was blocked in some way or another. There is still a Raspberry Pi and keyboard sitting under my TV, and I would like to give it a second attempt. But I think the problem is I need to better understand these little all-in-one routers that Comcast gives everyone.

Sorry.

mwoolweaver commented 5 years ago

From what I can tell you can only use the pi-hole for dns and you can’t use it’s dhcp function because the all-in-one router they send you won’t allow you to disable dhcp.

Also to take this a step further, the only way to guarantee that all dns traffic is routed through the pi-hole is to obtain a separate wireless router and put the all-in-one from Comcast in bridge mode and then disable the dhcp function in the separate router and let the pi-hole handle all dns and dhcp for your network.

This was the conclusion I came to in the last 2 days and is how I currently have my home network setup.

john-science commented 5 years ago

I think my problem is either (a) just navigating the awful menus on this Comcast all-in-one router, or (b) there are things I don't know about networking that keep me from understanding some part of those menus.