Resolving local hosts on Android

Google seem determined to break local name resolution on your home network on your Android phone, redirecting DNS lookups to their servers. Presumably this is partly to prevent solutions like pi-hole making a dent in their ad revenue and tracking. Easiest way round this is to install DNSChanger and specify your local DNS servers – …

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Dynamic DNS updating in python with ipify

I’ve used free Dynamic DNS services to give my home machine a “static” address in the past but they either start charging or have poor performance. As I run my own external nameserver, why not use RFC 2136 to dynamically update the address based on the IP from ipify? So with some python scripting, that’s …

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