09-24-2023 04:56 PM
There have not been posts that I could find since 2020 on this issue. I just want to confirm before I buy a new router that it isn't possible to get the Telus Boost Wifi 6 (the cylindrical white thing) to use another device on the LAN as a DNS server? This other device would be a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole.
I have gone into the Boost web admin settings and I see that the DNS is listed as "192.168.1.254" which is the LAN address for the ONT. There doesn't seem to be an option to change this in the web interface.
09-24-2023 08:13 PM
The Boost Wifi 6 is merely a wireless access point, not the router. It pulls IPs for devices directly from whatever router Telus has installed. You'd need to change DNS on the main router/ONT.
09-24-2023 11:09 PM
09-29-2023 02:19 PM
So I have changed the DNS entry on the ONT/NAH to the Pi-hole's IP Address: 192.168.1.150
Devices seem to pick up this address as their automatically assigned DNS server address. However, ads are still not being blocked network wide. However when I manually assign "192.168.1.150" as the DNS server on each device then ads are blocked. This suggests that there is a DNS leak somewhere in the ONT/NAH. Is there anywhere else in the ONT/NAH settings that I must ensure that the DNS is changed?
10-02-2023 11:26 AM
I have gotten Pi-Hole to work consistently now. To do so I had to do the following:
Given that disabling IPv6 did the trick, I am assuming that was where the DNS leaks were coming from. I don't know what the implication of disabling IPv6 on my network is, but ad blocking seems to be working well.