# Recommended strategy for clients with hard-coded DNS?

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**Created:** [August 3, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/recommended-strategy-for-clients-with-hard-coded-dns/22103 "2019-08-03T02:21:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanSchaper](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/danschaper/32/91_2.png) [@DanSchaper](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DanSchaper)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2019, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/recommended-strategy-for-clients-with-hard-coded-dns/22103/2 "2019-08-03T02:36:16Z")

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The best way to handle those devices would be to use some rules on the router or firewall to intercept all traffic to port 53 and give it to the Pi-hole DNS. I think there is a FAQ or two that covers some of the examples for `iptables`, and there is a blog post about using Ubiquity gear and their configurations.

> [@\[Guide/DDWRT\] Force PiHole as DNS server with client details](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/guide-ddwrt-force-pihole-as-dns-server-with-client-details/21310):
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> I've sweat so much over this so I thought I would share how I did it. Maybe there is already a guide somewhere or something.... I asked here but we didn't find a solution and on the DDWRT website I spent a week reading and trying before posting. I wanted to force the PiHole to be the only accessible DNS server. Using DDWRT, I tried forcing it, but since the clients would detect that the wrong server answered the query, it didn't work. nslookup google.com ;; reply from unexpected source: 192.16…

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> Just last week I wrote about how I improved the security and privacy of all
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