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<blockquote data-quote="CyberDevil" data-source="post: 945348" data-attributes="member: 91290"><p>Update v0.6.15</p><p>Changelog by Daniel (<a href="https://github.com/dhaavi" target="_blank">dhaavi - Overview</a>):</p><p></p><p></p><p>Portmaster has really great developers: reaction for my comments in less than a day! Now ping does not work for blocked hosts and IP addresses, and the rules created for the System DNS Client allow you to block requests to the DNS server before they are actually processed.</p><p></p><p>An explanation is needed here: global rules make a block after processing a DNS request - this is a prerequisite to support different sets of rules for different applications. Therefore, you will see requests to the DNS server in the console of your NextDNS, ControlD, or Pi-Hole, but in fact Portmaster will block the connection for a specific application. Read more in an interesting article from the official blog: <a href="https://safing.io/blog/2021/03/23/attributing-dns-requests-on-windows/" target="_blank">Attributing DNS Requests on Windows</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberDevil, post: 945348, member: 91290"] Update v0.6.15 Changelog by Daniel ([URL='https://github.com/dhaavi']dhaavi - Overview[/URL]): Portmaster has really great developers: reaction for my comments in less than a day! Now ping does not work for blocked hosts and IP addresses, and the rules created for the System DNS Client allow you to block requests to the DNS server before they are actually processed. An explanation is needed here: global rules make a block after processing a DNS request - this is a prerequisite to support different sets of rules for different applications. Therefore, you will see requests to the DNS server in the console of your NextDNS, ControlD, or Pi-Hole, but in fact Portmaster will block the connection for a specific application. Read more in an interesting article from the official blog: [URL='https://safing.io/blog/2021/03/23/attributing-dns-requests-on-windows/']Attributing DNS Requests on Windows[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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