Pi Hole and Amazon Echo

[JemTheWire]

I love to tinker and wanted to put a spare Raspberry Pi Model 3+ that I have spare to good use. I decided to set up PiHole

All went well and the PiHole appears to be doing its job nicely.

As a test, I disconnected the PiHole from my network and as expected, my systems could no longer access web pages as their URL's were not being resolved by the PiHole

One thing that I cannot explain is that even with the PiHole disconnected, my Amazon Echo Dot's all still work and give answers to questions asked etc.

Why would that be?

Thanks for reading

 

[coxhaus]

Maybe they use hard coded IP addresses so they cannot be spoofed. I know I have blocked all DNS except for 1 I wanted to use and they still worked.

 

[JemTheWire]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I guess in the absence of any other explanation that fits.