{"id":161,"date":"2024-10-20T21:06:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T21:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/?p=161"},"modified":"2024-10-20T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T21:54:29","slug":"block-updates-for-playstation-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Block Updates for PlayStation Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If your portal is on a low enough version (at time of writing, less than 2.05), it may eventually support custom firmware or hacks that allow it to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theflow0\/status\/1759627938910089575\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theflow0\/status\/1759627938910089575\">perform functions it was not intended to<\/a>. In order to block your device from updating, you should add the following site to your DNS Block list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rt5zfXmoK5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dwc.dl.playstation.net<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This was first reported on twitter by &#8220;TheFlow0&#8221; here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In order to keep using your PS Portal with your PS5 on 2.05, block <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rt5zfXmoK5\">https:\/\/t.co\/rt5zfXmoK5<\/a> in your router and reboot. Very important, do not factory reset the device, as otherwise it will force update you.<\/p>&mdash; Andy Nguyen (@theflow0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theflow0\/status\/1780295524781854889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prerequisites<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pi-Hole (other self-hosted solutions may also work): &lt;Reference to another article that I will write>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automatic DNS settings configured in your router pointing to Pi-Hole.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Playstation Portal connected to Wi-Fi network with automatic DNS settings inherited from Router.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">How to Add BlackList<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Pi-Hole, navigate to &#8220;Domains&#8221; in the left hand navigation Bar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In this screen fill in the details of the domain and select &#8220;Add to Blacklist&#8221;:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1019\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/psnet.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Playstation-Portal-BlockList.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psnet.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Playstation-Portal-BlockList.png 1019w, https:\/\/psnet.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Playstation-Portal-BlockList-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/psnet.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Playstation-Portal-BlockList-768x378.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your portal is on a low enough version (at time of writing, less than 2.05), it may eventually support custom firmware or hacks that allow it to perform functions it was not intended to. In order to block your device from updating, you should add the following site to your DNS Block list: This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dns","category-handhelds","category-playstation-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnet.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}