Found a DNS filter setting that blocked my roommate's torrent traffic

My roommate kept getting copyright notices from our ISP and I was fed up with the blame game. I tried a bunch of stuff, firewall rules, port blocking, nothing stuck. Then I set up a local DNS filter on our router that specifically blackholes known torrent tracker domains. Took about 40 minutes on a Saturday and I used a free list from GitHub to get the tracker addresses. First week after that, zero notices, and he thought the internet was just slow for a bit. He finally asked what I did and now he just streams stuff legally. Anyone else running a DNS filter for shared households or is that too much control?

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wren_brown7d ago

Did you just keep the DNS filter running after that, or did you take it off once he switched to legal streaming? I've done the same thing with a housemate before, it's honestly the least drama way to handle it lol.