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I believe you are referencing possibly old data.

I have a Chromecast. I also redirect all port 53 traffic (DNS) back through my own DNS server at the firewall level (does not go to Google DNS). It works perfectly fine wihtout directly using Google DNS.

Yes, they do ignore the DNS set by DHCP, but that can be worked around.



AFAIKT, you can block Google DNS and all your Google Cast devices should fallback to DHCP assigned DNS.


Oh, good to know. I just let it think it's using Google and like redirecting it behind the scenes


This is accurate. I drop all of my google gadgets access to google DNS services and they use my local DNS.


Which model Chromecast do you have?


2nd gen




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