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Short story long, I'm trying to setup express vpn DNS to work with my smart tv in my living room so I can expand my netflix options but I cannot customize the DNS on my "smart" tv.. I'm running Pihole on a home server here and I thought maybe I could redirect the DNS request from my tv to forward it to express VPNs servers so I found this unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144482/… but doesn't really seem to be working

Just wondering if that is not the correct solution to my question and if I should look elsewhere

Journeyman Geek

Ok, you have piqued my interest :D

Datsik

sudo iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.86.167 -d 192.168.86.5 -j DNAT --to 85.203.37.1

This is kinda what I had but when I check on ExpressVPN's site it says it's not configured

Journeyman Geek

hmm

Datsik

2:29 AM

i did TCP as well as UDP entries

Journeyman Geek

> I cannot customize the DNS on my "smart" tv

where does it pick up DNS from? Can you check what DNS server it uses? Is it using DHCP?

Datsik

It's using DHCP which tells it to use the DNS server that my router says, so I had pictured it going TV > Pihole > Redirect > ExpressVPN

Journeyman Geek

@Datsik so... for all intents and purposes

your pihole is a router

(someone will correct me if I'm wrong)

Datsik

lol they always do

Journeyman Geek

(well practically - having built a router myself...)

A pihole is a DNS server, but it can also handle DHCP

Datsik

2:33 AM

I was having issues with pihole detecting devices, it was just logging everything under the main gateway, so I changed it to be the DHCP as well and disabled it on my router

Journeyman Geek

ugh. I am having trouble imaging your topology

yup, that's sensible

ironically the actual IP tables part I'm not too sure about

hmm

Datsik

So basically goes Modem > Pihole > all connected devices

its running on an old PowerEdge R610*

Journeyman Geek

....

snort

You're running a power hungrier, simpler version of my setup :D

Datsik

haha maybe, I'm just not sure how to get this to redirect properly to express' dns

Journeyman Geek

I'm not as familiar with pihole as I want to be though

Ya, I think its actually a good question

Datsik

2:36 AM

I feel like pihole is irrelevant like it doesn't matter in this case I feel that the iptables should be able to override any request before pihole tries to do anything with it

But I don't know for sure

Journeyman Geek

hmm

let me review my setup and think :D

Datsik

Should I just open a question? I thought the answer would be super simple so I thought it might just be a waste

Journeyman Geek

Its been a while

Yes you should lol

Datsik

Journeyman Geek

journeymangeek.com/?p=196

FWIW that's my setup

but essentially pihole does what the DNS and DHCP servers do...

@Datsik wait, does your pihole actually act as a router/do ip forwarding?

Datsik

2:41 AM

It should yeah

Journeyman Geek

erf

A few people here also built their own routers :D

they might be of help as well

but yeah, ask the question, I'll try to give a few hints if I can on betterering it

I'd also be willing to put a bounty on it on the usual rules :D

Datsik

Journeyman Geek

(1. You keep an eye on the question and let me know if an answer works 2. You let me know when its eligible)

Datsik

Q: How can I redirect DNS requests to a different DNS server with iptables

I am trying to get my living room TV to use ExpressVPN's DNS servers so that I can expand my options.. The only thing is my "smart" TV does not let me change the DNS settings it just uses what the router gives it, which in this case is the IP address to my small server running pihole. Is it poss...

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Journeyman Geek

so, network topoligy would help here

asciiflow.com

I abuse this for quick and very dirty network diagrams

Journeyman Geek

2:56 AM

erf

the one time I need to find a ASCII flowdiagram I did

I keep finding my windows 7 network map and... something I did in visio

bwDraco

3:52 AM

@JourneymanGeek chat.stackexchange.com/search?q=erf&user=10208&room=118

Journeyman Geek

I was hoping for a more useful search 😁

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12:26 PM

@Boris_yo yes

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5:52 PM

This is on topic at the current site, but is it high enough quality for a migration? I would presume troubleshooting the window splay store would have much more expertise here if it’s welcome as is...

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DavidPostill

@bmike It looks OK, but I thought questions with answers are not normally migrated? Feel free to send it over ...

bmike

It’s not normal, op didn’t ask yet either. Lemme check with the answered if they’re cool to let it go

thank you for the quick response :) @DavidPostill

DavidPostill

@bmike NP :)

bwDraco

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bmike

@bwDraco phew. Thanks as well.

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