How can i effectively block windows 10 update on pepwave router with firmware 8.0
I imagine you could put a local DNS entry for update.microsoft.com to resolve to 127.0.0.1 (or some other address that isn’t windows update). There is a more complete-looking list on this page for all the domains used in windows update. (2nd comment has the domain names)
In my experience, it isn’t hard to break windows update. The difficulty is in trying to get it to work most of the time. Good luck buddy.
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Wow, have you come to the right place. Been fighting this for a while and it works. I now have to connect to a VPN (to bypass these router restrictions) to update Windows 10. In Content Blocking block
update.microsoft.com
mp.microsoft.com
windowsupdate.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com
To prevent Microsoft from spying on you, also block telemetry.microsoft.com and browser.events.data.msn.com (used by Edge browser).
If Content Blocking alone is not sufficient, I have long list of Local DNS records for you.
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