# Manually delay DNS lookups to ‘slow down’ certain websites

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/manually-delay-dns-lookups-to-slow-down-certain-websites/36588>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [August 2, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/manually-delay-dns-lookups-to-slow-down-certain-websites/36588 "2020-08-02T12:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![TechD123](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@TechD123](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/TechD123)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/manually-delay-dns-lookups-to-slow-down-certain-websites/36588/1 "2020-08-02T12:06:06Z")

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Not sure if this is already a thing (and it probably would have a very small audience/users), but it would be helpful if I could manually ‘delay’ certain DNS lookups in order to slow down the connection to certain websites. Would be particularly helpful to nudge people off Google on my network. I’m sure it would have more serious applications as well, haha.

If there is some way to do get similar results using the router of the network, please let me know as well.

Thank you for reading!

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**Author:** ![yubiuser](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/yubiuser/32/12100_2.png) [@yubiuser](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/yubiuser)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/manually-delay-dns-lookups-to-slow-down-certain-websites/36588/2 "2020-08-02T12:30:39Z")

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This is not exactly what you want, but would serve the same purpose

> [@Support for partial blocking? block 30% of requests going to a domain](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/support-for-partial-blocking-block-30-of-requests-going-to-a-domain/34448):
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> Hello, Does PiHole support conditional/rated blocking? I'm using PiHole mainly to block social media applications, I don't want all the requests to be blocked as this annoys my family members. I used to write a python script that just disables PiHole at random times of day but it's still annoying for them (as they don't know what's going on). Is there some way to block a custom domain list for lets say 30% of the time? so the applications will still work but in a sluggish way rater than compl…

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**Author:** ![jfb](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/jfb/32/4332_2.png) [@jfb](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jfb)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/manually-delay-dns-lookups-to-slow-down-certain-websites/36588/3 "2020-08-02T13:49:28Z")

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My opinion - this is well outside the scope of what Pi-hole does or should do. You want to use Pi-hole to attempt to control user behavior on your network.

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**Author:** ![TechD123](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@TechD123](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/TechD123)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/manually-delay-dns-lookups-to-slow-down-certain-websites/36588/4 "2020-08-03T08:19:24Z")

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Thanks for this! I don’t think I’m going to tinker around with my pihole to that extent, though.