Hello. Pretty impressed with the results of only a single day working on this project. Also, super Kudos to the team who thought this up and made it happen.
My topic is more of a feature request I think. My pi zero w loaded (the second time.... failed on "failed to resolve raspberry pi org" pulls... I am not sure why this was but I did go check the date/time so maybe?) and appears to be running as intended after a number of rookie mistakes I corrected.
Here is my issue. My "MESHFORCE" router is apparently doing "ET CALL HOME" to Asia literally every couple of seconds to
www.qq.com
www.taobao.com
www.baidu.com
Between the 3 of them, 195,000 out of 201,000 total blocked making looking at the statistics really impossible as the stats are overwhelmed by this.
Is there a way to continue to block these (I don't really want my every move reported out on) and filter them from the stats so they would be much more useable? If not, is this something that could be included down the road for a future update?
Thanks! Again, great job on this by your team. I will be off to the donation page as soon as i hit post.
Thanks for your reply JFB. I did a bunch of research and found that this was a not uncommon issue on products from "Tenda", the parent company of my router. One post from a user was that his router was doing the same as mine, connecting every few seconds to qq, taobao and baidu. He sent a request to their support center and they said they knew about it and were fixing it in an update to firmware. This was August of 2019, so yeah maybe not so much? Support Request
Anyway, the plot thickens. I was planning on experimenting with 2 pi-holes. One to filter out the 3 domains in question and the second to run my stats. Started from scratch. Made lots of mistakes but learned a lot. (I use to work for Digital (DEC) in the 90s and turns out Raspian isn't all that different from UNIX, go figure). So, got the "new" pi-hole up and configured, could not get the manual DNS in my router app to save the pi-hole IP. Had to completely reboot/restart the router and when I did I could get it to save the pi-hole IP. Started up the dashboard and....... no more 3 domains every second or two. No idea why. The firmware on the router appeared to be the same as before the restart.
Now I have an "extra" Pi Zero. May do the dual configuration for improved performance I read about while doing research.
