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Dish Network STB Health bullshit | |
February 11th, 2019 | |
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So, I have two Dish Network XiP 913 "Hopper with Sling" satellite | |
receivers, and a pair of their thin-client receivers, the XiP 110 "Joey | |
1.0"... One of the Hopper receivers is in the living room and it's | |
typically used by my stepdad... the first Joey receiver is in mom's | |
room... The second Hopper receiver is in my room and the final Joey | |
receiver is in my brothers room... (I also have a Dish VIP211Z which I | |
use in a popup camper trailer, it's the most awesome receiver ever made, | |
and if you are a casual TV viewer, it is absolutely the one you should | |
get, full-stop.) | |
Me and my brother are not interested in any of the silly internet | |
functions that the satellite receivers have, if we want to watch | |
youtube, we just hop on our computers or cell phones... We're also | |
really not interested in mum's or dad's recorded programs, to this end | |
we installed isolators (part # 190507) to stop our receivers from | |
accessing mum's + dad's. | |
The problem... stepdad likes the youtube crap on his receiver, so his is | |
internet connected, he also will not allow the satellite dish to be | |
placed in an optimal location, instead it is where his crummy DirecTV | |
(yuck) dish used to be... As such, the signal is not as strong as it | |
should be, but it is certainly usable (I'd estimate at least 99.9% | |
reliability)... Unfortunately with that signal not being up to Dish's | |
local standards, and stepdad's receiver being internet connected, the | |
damn thing phones home to Dish, and they invariably call my phone, I | |
don't answer (because they only call while I am asleep or at work, | |
naturally!), and they won't leave a voicemail.......... on the extremely | |
rare occasion that I do get to answer, I explain to the person that, | |
yes, the signal is weak for the area, but I do not want them to send | |
anyone out to fix it because it would require moving the dish, which | |
stepdad is unwilling to do, and more importantly, the damn thing works | |
fine with the weak signal; I ask them not to call, I will call them if I | |
have an issue, and that keeps them away for a month... But next month | |
they're back with a vengence, calling 3 or 4 times a day with no | |
voicemail. argh. | |
Since the Dish hounds won't leave me alone, but stepdad wants youtube on | |
his box, I've decided to try and get the box to stop phoning home... | |
After letting a packet capture run all day, I've found some interesting | |
hosts to try to block via my local DNS server, unbound... I set my | |
pfsense box to force/redirect all DNS quries to unbound too, because | |
these Dish boxes will happily try to query Google DNS (8.8.8.8+8.8.4.4) | |
in addition to DHCP supplied DNS servers. | |
Here's what I am trying out now: | |
server: | |
#Satellite box | |
local-zone: "grasshopper-analytics.dishanywhere.com" redirect | |
local-zone: "grasshopper-netra-upload.dishanywhere.com" redirect | |
local-zone: "grasshopper-stb-statereport.dishanywhere.com" redirect | |
local-zone: "logstash-dev.dishtechbeta.us" redirect | |
local-zone: "pingback.sling.com" redirect | |
local-zone: "stbanalyticschy.echostarbeta.com" redirect | |
local-zone: "stbanalyticspvm.echostarbeta.com" redirect | |
local-zone: "vmeasureul.dishaccess.tv" redirect | |
This configuration causes unbound to immediately reply to clients | |
reqesting these domains with a no answer reply... that is, a reply which | |
is not an error, but does not contain any records (such as A or AAAA). | |
I hope this gets the hounds off of my back. :) | |
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