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[–] phonics@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Im at the level where I don't know what SSO means. I can follow instructions to change a DNS. But what a DNS actually is I don't know. Which is fine, until I need to work out what's broken

[–] tuck182@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

SSO is "single sign on". DNS is "domain name service", which is just a way to turn a hostname (like www.google.com) into an IP address. It's sort of like a phone directory, but for the Internet.

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

SSO is single sign on, so you don't need individual username and password for every service. It's a bit more advanced so don't worry about it until you have what you want working properly for a while.

DNS is like the yellow pages of the internet - when you type www.google.com your computer uses a DNS server to look up what actual IP address corresponds to the website name. The point of Adguard or pihole is that when a website tries to load an ad your custom DNS server just says it doesn't recognize the address

[–] phonics@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Oh like a custom yellowpages, sick!