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Sorry, took me a moment.
Just tested on my girlfriends Laptop. Same problem there. On both PC's port 53 is only used by LocalDNS.
If I set DNS to automatic, I get Internet on the Wii U, so I believe the WiFi Adapter is okay...

EDIT: I solved it. I unplugged my router for about ten minutes and it worked again. This latest Vodafone-Routers aka easybox are complete garbage.
Sorry for wasting your time, mate.
Once again, thank you for your great app and support. Really appreciate that. Especially because no other solution works for me. DNS-U and others are completely ignored. Maybe just another stupid issue with my router...
Glad you solved it,branded routers, the worst.
Also, Vodafone forces its Dns you can't do anything about it
 

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Great program, I made a GUI for Windows users. Instead of creating a whole new fork for just Windows users, I made this simple GUI that will run the console program in a GUI window form. There is a start and stop button on the form. There is a system-tray menu, right-click it and you can click on show/hide to hide the form, or show it again. The DNS server will automatically stop when you exit the GUI. I just made this mainly for people that don't want a console window always open on their desktop while running the program. Hope some people can get some use out of it.

Right now it just uses the default rules.txt, I'll eventually update it to select the options you want. I will also make a new icon for it, if anyone is good at making an icon, or if people like this, I'm open for a new icon, I just used what I had.

Updated program, go to link in next post.
 
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Bumping this, since the WiiU 5.5.2 update is live. I just tested this again on my 5.5.1 console and can confirm it still works. This is handy if your router does not support IP/DNS filtering or you don't want to rely on the public DNS server, which can go down at times. I have also used for the 3DS in the past too.
 
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I can also confirm this has blocked the 5.5.2 update on our Wii-U console and the download manager says "Unable to connect to the server".

Is there anything else we should be doing now this new update is out ? Don't have a custom firmware or anything like that.

Thanks.
 

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I seem to be having problems with this LocalDNS.

Now whenever we go in to the web browser on the WiiU, the LocalDNS window that is open on my Windows file server, just quits out and disappears.

Not sure how long its not been working for as my daughter who uses the WiiU isn't sure how long she has had no Internet access on the games console. Its still version 5.5.1E however.

Its been previously working for ages with no problems, so not sure what's happening now.
 
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I seem to be having problems with this LocalDNS.

Now whenever we go in to the web browser on the WiiU, the LocalDNS window that is open on my Windows file server, just quits out and disappears.

Not sure how long its not been working for as my daughter who uses the WiiU isn't sure how long she has had no Internet access on the games console. Its still version 5.5.1E however.

Its been previously working for ages with no problems, so not sure what's happening now.
I never had this issue, try downloading the latest version and rules from github, check you firewall's settings and make sure you have net framework 3.5 installed.
Then while localdns is running, open a cmd window and type nslookup google.com 192.168...(you local ip) this should query localdns and you should see the requests in its window, if it doesn't work there is something messed up with your pc's settings
 

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I never had this issue, try downloading the latest version and rules from github, check you firewall's settings and make sure you have net framework 3.5 installed.
Then while localdns is running, open a cmd window and type nslookup google.com 192.168...(you local ip) this should query localdns and you should see the requests in its window, if it doesn't work there is something messed up with your pc's settings

Hi exelix11

I already tried downloading the newer version and the newer rules from Github but the same thing happens.

I can't see .NET Framework 3.5 listed in Programs. But there is one called Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 which looks to have been installed about a week ago according to the date modified column.

When I do the nslookup command the LocalDNS window quits out again and I get no replies:

C:\Users\Administrator>nslookup google.com 192.168.1.100
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.100

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** UnKnown can't find google.com: No response from server

If I look at the Windows Firewall inbound rules there are four entries present for the program "LocalDNS"

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IMO the 'delete update folder' method is better since then the eShop isn't blocked, but this is still pretty cool and useful.

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Hi exelix11

I already tried downloading the newer version and the newer rules from Github but the same thing happens.

I can't see .NET Framework 3.5 listed in Programs. But there is one called Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 which looks to have been installed about a week ago according to the date modified column.

When I do the nslookup command the LocalDNS window quits out again and I get no replies:

C:\Users\Administrator>nslookup google.com 192.168.1.100
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.100

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** UnKnown can't find google.com: No response from server

If I look at the Windows Firewall inbound rules there are four entries present for the program "LocalDNS"

Thanks
Make sure it's allowed in the firewall then try manually installing .net 3.5 (in windows 10 there is some hidden setting that installs it, search on google how to), you can also try the oldest release of local dns from github since it requires 4.7

IMO the 'delete update folder' method is better since then the eShop isn't blocked, but this is still pretty cool and useful.
deleting the update folder is probably the best method, but not everyone wants to mess with their wii u's os.
And not everyone is able to do it, a friend of mine is so incompetent that failed multiple times to do it so he just gave up.
Still, this tool isn't meant to just block updates, i use it to block websites on my brother's devices as well :P
 
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Make sure it's allowed in the firewall then try manually installing .net 3.5 (in windows 10 there is some hidden setting that installs it, search on google how to), you can also try the oldest release of local dns from github since it requires 4.7


deleting the update folder is probably the best method, but not everyone wants to mess with their wii u's os.
And not everyone is able to do it, a friend of mine is so incompetent that failed multiple times to do it so he just gave up.
Still, this tool isn't meant to just block updates, i use it to block websites on my brother's devices as well :P

I tried turning the Windows Firewall OFF altogether but it still just quits out of the LocalDNS window.

My OS is Windows Server 2008 R2.

I just tried the oldest release off Github and that also is quitting out after running the nslookup command. I managed to grab a screen shot of the error before it vanished.
 

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I've just turned off IPV6 on the Network Connection of the server and now when I do the nslookup command the LocalDNS windows does NOT vanish and it resolves the Google IP address OK.

I changed routers recently and looks like the Windows server created a new network connection called "Network 3".

Perhaps I previously had IPV6 turned off and this new connection to the new router turned it back on ?

I've changed the Wii-U's DNS IP's back to that of my local server. And now when opening the web browser on the Wii-U the LocalDNS window on the server does not vanish and it stays open now doing its thing as it should.
 
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I've just turned off IPV6 on the Network Connection of the server and now when I do the nslookup command the LocalDNS windows does NOT vanish and it resolves the Google IP address OK.

I changed routers recently and looks like the Windows server created a new network connection called "Network 3".

Perhaps I previously had IPV6 turned off and this new connection to the new router turned it back on ?

I've changed the Wii-U's DNS IP's back to that of my local server. And now when opening the web browser on the Wii-U the LocalDNS window on the server does not vanish and it stays open now doing its thing as it should.
Good for you, I didn't think about IPv6 but ofc that doesn't work, the ip parsing code was meant for IPv4.
If i get some free time this weekend i'll try to implement it or at least hande crashes.
 
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Good for you, I didn't think about IPv6 but ofc that doesn't work, the ip parsing code was meant for IPv4.
If i get some free time this weekend i'll try to implement it or at least hande crashes.

Sounds Good!

I don't know how to remove the update folder on the Wii-U as someone else mentioned. I haven't even got a custom firmware installed as it looked too difficult for me. So this LocalDNS tool is really handy for blocking Nintendo System updates.

I am using Wup Installer and a USB drive connected to the Wii-U etc. Not sure if I can update to 5.5.2 but its still on 5.5.1E currently.

Thanks
 

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