Connectivitycheck.gstatic.com

[mail2rst]

my android box send request to ” http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com “ this web address every minute two three time. I did web search this & there is a solution for this is to run fake web page

Chromecast (Don't) Phone Home

This one is for those of you who have noticed that your Chromecast devices (and I hear many Android phones too) do a connectivity check to http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com every minute or so. When an internet connection goes down the Chromecast tries hits this domain tens of thousands of times, making a right mess of the Pi-Hole graphs. I've also decided there's no good reason why google needs to be able to count my device pings... so I engineered a little workaround. Call it an abundance o…

as this is the old page & pi hole updated many time. As now there is option of local DNS record. I need to configure it. Please some body in expert make step by step guideline so that I can configure all that system on my single raspberry pi. Also I want to request the pihole administrators to make some functionality in there system so that pihole can smartly configured to do these tasks as in future there are many IOT devices need this type of configuration. Thanks in advance

[jfb]

It is not clear to me what you want to do. Do you want to map the connectivitycheck.gstatic.com domain name to a local IP? And the local IP leads to a web server that will provide some reply to the requesting client?

[mail2rst]

yes, the end result want to run the page local & divert all calls to local address which respond back according to client requirement & avoid the unnecessary outbound traffic to google servers.

[jfb]

Map the domain name to the IP address in /etc/hosts on the Pi-hole host OS. That IP will be the local webserver that you will set up.

[mail2rst]

Thanks @JFB i also need to help to make web page with its functionality, as in raspberry/pihole lighttpd already installed. i want to make program/page so that it will not adversely effect pihole & run independently.

[jfb]

I can't help you with that. Perhaps another user has a solution.

[Bucking_Horn]

@mail2rst

i also need to help to make web page

Isn't that information available in the post you quoted, specifically Chromecast (Don't) Phone Home 👽 - #4 by jpgpi250?

[mail2rst]

I follow those instructions, but in the end " http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204/" page is not responding. so something wrong for me somewhere or i missed something. i am newbie for linux so more simple instruction appreciated with latest software.

# Add user chosen options held in external file
include_shell "cat external.conf 2>/dev/null"

some thing is missing at external.conf. i install php & able to access testing php html page. so that portion is working but this external.conf is not working.