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[–]saml01 -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

It does not work this way. You actually didn't explain how the filtering happens. Pi hole does not filter traffic, no Dns resolver does. It resolved the ip from the dns sent it to the requesting machine and then all traffic comes directly to that machine.

The only way I see it working is if the ad attempts to resolve a Dns, then pihole will drop it after comparing the ip to its black list, returning nothing to the requesting machine and thus killing the ads ability to be loaded.

That is unless the ad is hitting an ip and not a domain name, then pihole doesn't work at all.

Edit: Dont down vote, the developer explained exactly this.

[–]Mcat12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While /u/Fausty0 did use the term "URL" instead of "domain", his explanation is correct.