2026-10-27 23:40 UTC
When I setup pihole, the google home speakers I had were making dns requests something like 20k times a day. More than pretty much every other device on my network.
I removed them all after that.
Replies (3)
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@ninja@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 02:14
I’m surprised it didn’t just have google’s DNS hardcoded to bypass your pihole.
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@Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 04:09
Similar for my Google nest, it’s the #1 host in number of daily requests in my network, around one every 500ms Now it’s on it’s own vlan so there’s nothing that they can report on my network, but it’s really concerning that a thermostat calls home this often. It should be enough to do it once an hour to check the outside temperature and only if it’s enabled.v
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@bedwyr@piefed.ca 2026-10-28 01:33
What does that mean exactly? Like it’s trying to connect to where? Why?