which pgm is accessing the net?

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 21:10, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 13:34:33 +0100
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 20:33, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > In the meantime I figured out how to get the firewall to block the
> > > entire googlevideo.com domain, but just for the Ubuntu box, not all
> > > the LAN devices.
> >
> > PiHole may help you...
> >
> > https://pi-hole.net/
>
> Thanks for the suggestion! That's a VERY interesting pgm, especially
> since it works for the whole local net. I've been using browser add-ons
> to help with ads, and this adds another dimension to overall protection.
>
> Turns out this is similar to the ad blocking available in the Firewalla
> firewall.

Note that PiHole (which is an excellent application) is not a
firewall, it works by intercepting the DNS lookup of blacklisted
sites.

Colin