Ad-free time!, UnoTelly etc. services provide a nice way to unblock regions for Netflix and others using their custom DNS servers.

But I don't want to direct all my DNS trafic to them and I'm too lazy to manually configure all my devices. So here's how to transparently unblock Netflix for all your devices using Asuswrt Merlin. It's custom router firmware which can be used on the Asus RT-N66U.

From <http:///Advanced_System_Content.asp>

Ssh into the machine and type

echo "server=/netflix.com/<UNBLOCK-DNS-SERVER-IP>" > /jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add

Replace <UNBLOCK-DNS-SERVER-IP>with the ip address correct ip address.

Chromecast has hard coded DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Luckily we can use simple iptables rules to redirect Chromecast DNS requests back to our router.

Since iptables rules are not persistent we must add them to the nat-start hook

cat > /jffs/scripts/nat-start <<EOF
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s <CHROMECAST-IP>/32 -d 8.8.4.4 -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to <ROUTER-IP>
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -s <CHROMECAST-IP>/32 -d 8.8.8.8 -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to <ROUTER-IP>
EOF

Make the hook executable

chmod +x /jffs/scripts/nat-start

and reboot the router.

Tomato && DD-WRT documentation on Ad-free Time! https://adfreetime.com/get-started/chromecast/