Adding domains to Exclude from Top Charts Still counts on Percent Blocked

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@sesipod

Will this be changed in a new version?

There is a open feature request for this:

Add support for ignorelist.txt (skip the log)

Devices like "Fire TV" (and other Amazon's devices) literally flood the DNS logs. In about 10 hours, each of my "Fire TV" devices made over 12000 query to 'spectrum.s3.amazonaws.com' ; and the entries remains as blocked even if I block the domain. Another domain which I find being slammed pretty hard is "device-metrics-us.amazon.com" (by default blocked, but frequency remains same even after white-listing). These entries make DB bloated and cause extreme slowness (or crash) in Web UI For exa…

@sesipod

Or is there something that I can do to block the requests from being logged in the first place? I can't stop it on the host device because it's a security camera.

On some IOT devices you can specify the DNS to use. May not be the case for your camera, but worth a check.

If you use your Pi-Hole as DHCP server, you can selectively exclude clients by MAC address and assign them to a different DNS server. It is done in one of the dnsmasq configuration files:

Things you can do with dnsmasq!

I came up with some stuff that eases things a little bit with my Pi-Hole life. Some of the ideas here, I gathered from around the internet. I wanted to share my findings. These configs are to be placed in /etc/dnsmasq.d I do realize that these could easily be combined into a single 04-custom.conf, but for the ease of teaching myself things I can do with this,, I like them seperate. Bypass Pihole by MAC Address What this Does: Find the MAC Address of the device that you want to skip pihole, …