Tip: You can also connect to winbox through the windows command prompt, for example (with no password): winbox.exe 192.168.88.1 admin "" Step 2: Redirect DNS traffic that is neither to nor from the PiHole, to the PiHole You can also enter the port number after the IP address, separating them with a colon, like this 192.168.88.1:9999. To connect to the router, enter the IP or MAC address of the router, specify your username and password (if any) and click on the Connect button. Winbox can be downloaded from the mikrotik download page If you are not familiar with Winbox, it’s a small utility that allows administration of the MikroTik RouterOS using a fast and simple GUI. Redirect all DNS traffic to PiHole with a MikroTik router Step 1: Connect to the Mikrotik router using WinboxĬonnect to your MikroTik router using Winbox. We want to access geo-blocked content like Netflix and BBC iPlayer on some devices like the Playstation 4 and 5 and the Google Chromecast who uses their own hardcoded DNS servers to determine their location no matter what you specify via DHCP or manually on the device itself. Why are we going to redirect DNS traffic to a Local Server and force users to use our specified DNS server?
This is especially great for business networks where you don’t want guests using their own DNS servers to bypass your content blocking. This approach is only useful if you have a Mikrotik router and semi-useful if your router uses ipchains as the logic is the same and the syntax is not that different.
Using a Mikrotik router you can route all DNS traffic to your raspberry PI on which you are running Pi-Hole using SmartDNS as the upstream DNS server.īy adding the firewall rules below we are telling the router to send everyone to the PiHole. Redirect all port 53 (DNS traffic) to Pi-hole for SmartDNS Force All DNS Traffic To Go Through Pi-hole Using Mikrotik
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