Tutorial Hacking
Updated
Avoid getting banned!
Hello from Germany,
Because I don't want that this post gets lost in a thread I put it in it's own thread!
I'm fairly new to the whole switch scene (just since three weeks), and because it is very interesting I started to read many things!
I downloaded a complete "finished" pack and hacked my switch with it, but I also started to "deconstruct" that pack to find out how anything works!
I investigated many time into dns, bans and security to help others and myself to avoid getting banned!
I really don't like 90dns!
The idea is good, don't get me wrong, but I don't like to waste the DNS settings for a service that isn't on my device!
And the next thing is: how secure is it if you change networks or the 90dns service is down?
Atmosphere brings anything we need, to protect our switch (locally) no matter whitch network!
I started to look into the settings of atmosphere and many other files, and now I would really appreciate it if you could take a look into all the files I put together and give me feedback please!
Tell me if it's good, if it's bad and, most importantly, if I missed something to make it better!
I think it would help many others to protect their device from being banned (I really hope it), and I also hope we can work together to make it even better! (FEEDBACK!!!)
OK! What is it doing?
1. Activated many things in system_settings.ini (atmosphere/config/)
2. Exosphere.ini (sd root)
3. override_settings.ini (atmosphere/config/ (set to R-Button))
(I just brought it back because on a new release it has to be set again)
4. "good" hosts file (atmosphere/hosts/ (default.txt and emummc.txt (both contain the same))
Hosts is what I would call "extreme" blocking thanks to the possible usage of "*" !
Example:
127.0.0.1 switch.*
127.0.0.1 switch*.*
127.0.0.1 *switch.*
127.0.0.1 *switch*.*
Same with nintendo! (but take a look yourself)
Made a exception for the HB-AppStore because the url is switchbru(dot) com and is BLOCKED because of the setup I made (see the example above) !
Now the appstore can be opened and used!
BLOCKED also some game servers for online gaming (just in case)
BLOCKED Google tracking and analytics
BLOCKED many YouTube ads servers! (if you use the patched YouTube app in CFW (emuMMC)
"This is still under testing and development)
As I said I'm not a fan of 90dns and now (with dns_mitm) I was able to set both DNS to cloudflare (1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1) because I am also no fan of fu... Google!
(what files are all related to 90dns? Would like to get completly rid of it? 90dns tester is deleted in switch folder, but it's there more?)
Well! That's it!
If you want to use it just copy all files out of the zip into the root of your SD and overwrite everything!
Do a reboot and it's set!
If you want to see if it's working just go to sd:/atmosphere/logs/ and open the log file in there!
(you can do that with many explorers from appstore in HBL)
If you want to help! You are welcome!
Because I don't want that this post gets lost in a thread I put it in it's own thread!
I'm fairly new to the whole switch scene (just since three weeks), and because it is very interesting I started to read many things!
I downloaded a complete "finished" pack and hacked my switch with it, but I also started to "deconstruct" that pack to find out how anything works!
I investigated many time into dns, bans and security to help others and myself to avoid getting banned!
I really don't like 90dns!
The idea is good, don't get me wrong, but I don't like to waste the DNS settings for a service that isn't on my device!
And the next thing is: how secure is it if you change networks or the 90dns service is down?
Atmosphere brings anything we need, to protect our switch (locally) no matter whitch network!
I started to look into the settings of atmosphere and many other files, and now I would really appreciate it if you could take a look into all the files I put together and give me feedback please!
Tell me if it's good, if it's bad and, most importantly, if I missed something to make it better!
I think it would help many others to protect their device from being banned (I really hope it), and I also hope we can work together to make it even better! (FEEDBACK!!!)
OK! What is it doing?
1. Activated many things in system_settings.ini (atmosphere/config/)
2. Exosphere.ini (sd root)
3. override_settings.ini (atmosphere/config/ (set to R-Button))
(I just brought it back because on a new release it has to be set again)
4. "good" hosts file (atmosphere/hosts/ (default.txt and emummc.txt (both contain the same))
Hosts is what I would call "extreme" blocking thanks to the possible usage of "*" !
Example:
127.0.0.1 switch.*
127.0.0.1 switch*.*
127.0.0.1 *switch.*
127.0.0.1 *switch*.*
Same with nintendo! (but take a look yourself)
Made a exception for the HB-AppStore because the url is switchbru(dot) com and is BLOCKED because of the setup I made (see the example above) !
Now the appstore can be opened and used!
BLOCKED also some game servers for online gaming (just in case)
BLOCKED Google tracking and analytics
BLOCKED many YouTube ads servers! (if you use the patched YouTube app in CFW (emuMMC)
"This is still under testing and development)
As I said I'm not a fan of 90dns and now (with dns_mitm) I was able to set both DNS to cloudflare (1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1) because I am also no fan of fu... Google!
(what files are all related to 90dns? Would like to get completly rid of it? 90dns tester is deleted in switch folder, but it's there more?)
Well! That's it!
If you want to use it just copy all files out of the zip into the root of your SD and overwrite everything!
Do a reboot and it's set!
If you want to see if it's working just go to sd:/atmosphere/logs/ and open the log file in there!
(you can do that with many explorers from appstore in HBL)
If you want to help! You are welcome!
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