In this post we’ll discuss two different ways to control standard DNS queries (UDP/TCP port 53) within a network using Mikrotik RouterOS. The intended outcome for doing this is to be able to either send all DNS queries from devices on your network to a specific external DNS server, such as 1.1.1.3 (CloudFlare DNS for Families), or to send all DNS queries on your network to the routers internal DNS server. The latter configuration allows for the addition of blackhole DNS records to be put within your routers cache for hosts to query.

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