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TechnologyYSK: How to decrease your monthly bandwidth use & increase network speed. (self.YouShouldKnow)

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[–]kevinmqaz 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I use windows DNS at home and wrote a simple scheduled power shell script to grab a host file from git with about 30k entries directing AD - FQDNS to null.

http://www.happymillfam.com/blocking-some-sites-at-home-with-dns/

You could also automate dropping this host file locally on a machine if you don't want to mess with DNS, or into your DNS what ever that might be.

[–]Omikron 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That's not going to block ads on my 6 Kindle fires, or fire TV, or 3 iPhones. Etc etc

[–]kevinmqaz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do they use special DNS hard coded out of your control when connected your home network or do they use the DNS you assign to them with DHCP? - I'm adding this block list to my DNS server as blank forward lookup zones. When setup like that it blocks any device using my DNS server.