A method to globally disable DNS Booster

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OldGrizzly

• August 21, 2026 11:50
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Warning, use this at your own risk and only if you know what you are doing.  The built in DNS Booster in Firewalla is an amazing tool and if you don't have any need to disable it, don't. 

Since I use Pi-hole for my DNS across my entire network, I got tired of having to uncheck the box for every new device or get confused why a particular device wasn't working until I'd remember to go in and unset DNS Booster for it. This set of scripts sets a global policy that bypasses DNS Booster even if the box is checked, alternatively you can leave the global policy alone and unset all the devices. Used in combination, you can set the global policy and uncheck the devices to keep everything pretty.

I've used this for a little bit and tested it through a couple of upgrades and finally decided to share it. Hope this helps someone.

https://github.com/gelsbern/homelab-toolbox/tree/main/firewalla/dnsbooster

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  Firewalla

  • August 21, 2026 17:27

  Warning, when you turn off DNS booster, ALL DNS based filtering, including security stuff from active protect will NOT work. 

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