r/pihole

Wife got a free subscription to the ad-supported tier of Disney+. Asked me yesterday if it's possible that pihole intferes with that because she has not yet seen any ad but noticed odd glitches where the stream would skip a few seconds of content. Checked the pihole logs and sure enough, I saw blocked requests for disneyadvertising.com.

Wife insisted she'd rather watch ads that be annoyed by the content skipping issue, so I whitelisted that one and sure enough - the issue went away. And the ads returned.

No question, just figured this might be useful to someone.

My current Pi-hole setup is configured so that my router’s primary DNS is set to the IP address of the Pi-hole, and the secondary DNS is set to Cloudflare (1.1.1.1).

The reason for this is to have a failover DNS in case the device running Pi-hole goes down. However, I’ve noticed that blocking only works sometimes.

Is there a workaround for this scenario?

Once a week my pihole crashes (pi zero w), usually Sunday afternoon or night.

this causes the devices to not load the internet.

I remove the usb plug from the device and plug it back. It starts again in like ten minutes.

I tried to pull the system info to see what went down, but the file reads as No Entries. But how will it detect if the pihole is crashed?

How to run an analysis and prevent it from happening again? Please help me?

All the install instructions I can find are to install pihole v6. Is it possible to reinstall pihole v5?

My main router is on one side of the house and second router on the other. Do I just connect pi to the main router or do I need one for the second one too? Second router is connected to the main via lan.

Tengo un PI-Hole como DNS

En realidad parece que no funciona del todo bien ya que no filtra anuncios de algunas paginas que visito para ver noticias de tecnologia o incluso en algunas otras busquedas que hago en donde esas paginas tienen anuncios al por mayor.

La cuestion es que listas de bloqueos usan para que funcione , no voy ser ambicioso y pedir que me pasen las que bloquean los anuncios de Youtube si es que existen.

Hi

I set up Technitium Dns few days ago aside Pihole. Pihole is my DHCP, and previously moved from unbound to dnscrypt to finally installed technitium dns.

It really worth it especially reducing the latency. I was surprised after 24H seeing the Pihole blocks % stats lowering but it’s obvious due to the increasing cache…unless I am wrong.

The DNS functions from pihole to technitium are like night and day !

thx guys for the dev and opensource sharing

Hello! Nearly 6 years ago I released a FOSS app for Pi-hole called PiBar, and the community support was incredible, and people have never stopped using the app. It's downloaded regularly through brew and people (voluntarily) buy it on the App Store to this day. So, thank you all! It is a pleasure to be of service.

Anyway, cutting to the chase, yesterday I finally released the final v1.2 update that adds Pi-hole v6 support. It also keeps v5 support at the same time, so it works the same if you have a network of mismatching Pi-holes, for whatever reason you may.

Since there is such a fully featured Pi-hole app on the App Store already, with built in charts and domain management, I've decided to keep PiBar a light weight FOSS utility and not bloat it up. But I did add one new feature, you can mark devices as 'ignore when offline', so if you move between locations that have different Pi-holes, the stats and on/off functionality won't be turned off by Offline Pi-hole warnings.

Oh, and the apple pie is properly plated now.

• Download here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/amiantos/PiBar-1.2.zip
• Or, of course, `brew install pibar` will install or update you to 1.2
• Or, totally optionally, it's $4.99 on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pibar-for-pi-hole/id1514292645?ls=1

Again, thank you to the Pi-hole community for your support since May 2020! That was a very different time in history :D

I've recently fell down the pihole and found out about how it can block ads and prevent tracking etc. It blew my mind. I was completely unaware about any of this and have a few very basic questions. Please excuse my ignorance. I don't have a background in this and would like to set this up for my home wifi.

I currently have the base router that came with home internet and that is plugged into the wifi that also came and was setup by the local internet company.

1. I've seen some people set up a home server and have pihole run on the server (router plugs into the server and wifi plugs into the server basically the server is in between the router and the wifi) and seen some people have their router plugged directly into their wifi without a server in between, but have a raspberry pi running as well. Is one more recommended than the other? Is there a difference?

2. This is more of a tangential question and not really a pihole question. Would there be a privacy reason to ditch the default router and get a different one?

Thank you so much. Thank you for your patience

I have an Eero router that has ad blocking functionality, are there good reasons to prefer this over Pi Hole?

I used to use Pi Hole years ago before I moved and didn’t have this new router. Also, not sure why but Eero being owned by Amazon, I don’t fully trust it. If not selling data, then I wouldn’t be surprised if they are allowing Amazon stuff come through.

What’s everyone thoughts?

Would like to get a Pi zero 2W for about £18, and i have a few questions

1. What does it block? I've been told it doesn't block YT, but does it block streaming services or spotify, etc.

2. How big does the micro sd card need to be?

3. Is there any difference from a normal ad blocker?

Thanks!

[Mods: this is my open source DNS server project. If you won't allow it here, just delete]

Blockasaurus is an open-source blocking DNS server clone/alternative to Pi-Hole.

I built this out of frustration with Pi-Hole. I wanted DoH/DoTLS upstream support and first-class support for running in Kubernetes home labs. I wanted every configuation change to live-reload without as restart. I wanted Prometheus metrics and a UI that didn't depend on PHP and an external web server.

Most of the UI will be very familiar to you, but there are a few key differences:

• Blockasaurus is built on top of the core of Blocky, a tried-and-true nameserver written in Go. Blocky is built into Blockasaurus and handles the DNS; Blockasaurus provides the UI and the REST API to Blocky configuration, which was moved to a SQLite DB.
• Blocky supports DoH and DoTLS natively. This includes upstreams, and also includes listeners: you can set your own DoH endpoint up w/ a Lets Encrypt wildcard TLS cert
• Like Blocky, Blockasaurus is written in Go and ships as a single, do-it-all executable. One binary provides the nameserver, serves the web UI, and handles the REST API.
• It's great for home labs. It comes with a Helm chart!
• Blockasaurus does not currently have a DHCP server
• Blockasaurus is designed to be the DNS server supporting evan-proxy, a blocking proxy servers for teenagers' phones.

https://preview.redd.it/l1d5nndmf8wg1.jpg?width=1396&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d13049794e6ab4dc99183a7444aeaf023b3eaa82

I consider this a beta product, but I've been running it at my busy home for quite a while now and it's doing great.

Please report any bugs you notice on our Github.

Repo & Installers: https://github.com/chrissnell/blockasaurus

Blockasaurus Handbook: https://chrissnell.com/software/blockasaurus/

Considering buying a raspberry pi and dip my toes into pi hole for network wide ad blocking. I have seen a few posts on here mentioning running it in a docker container instead of needing to have a dedicated pi running it. Why would one choose one method over the other? I have 8 gig internet from my ISP and want to know if my internet speeds will affected and if a standalone pi can handle it? running 70+ clients on my home network and an extensive home lab. I love the idea of pi hole but I want to give it the most amount of resources to succeed.

So I have been having some issues with my pihole where it would just show errors and domains and ad lists would just disappear entirely.

Restoring to previous backups didn't help either.

Finally decided to use the recreate command which seems to have fixed it.

But then of course I decide to add the domains and add lists that I previously had manually.

Adlists are fine but for some reason my domains keep disappearing for whatever reason. I add them then they disappear after like 2 minutes or so and it doesn't matter how many times I readd them they just keep disappearing.

I still have a few domains that aren't getting deleted but any new domains I add like I said just keep disappearing.

What's going on?

Running version 6.4 on a rasp pi 5

Thank you

Howdy, I installed pi-hole on a new device today.

Hooked it up to my ethernet and configured everything, including static ip and ssh capabilities.

Connected to it via putty and browser from my pc and installed a bunch of blocklists.

Then I turned it off to move it near the router. Connected it there on ethernet and my router can see the device. However, I can only access the pi-hole webinterface through my wifi (which runs through the same router. I can no longer access it on my pc, even though I tested it like 30 minutes before I moved it.

So... what's going on here?

I'm brand new to using Pi-hole and just got it set up on a Pi Zero 2 W and in general, it's working great. However, I'm a little confused on the state of DNS encryption over the network and how much it matters with my current configuration.

This is a home network, and before setting up the Pi-hole, I was using Cloudflare as the primary DNS.

Currently, I have pi-hole set up with Cloudflare as the upstream DNS with DNSSEC. As I understand things, under this configuration, requests get passed to the pi-hole, unencrypted, which are then filtered by the lists and rules I set up, and then passed to the upstream DNS (Cloudflare in this case) to get served. At that point, is traffic still encrypted at the point of leaving the home network, or is this now less secure than using cloudflare as the primary DNS beforehand.

To put it simply, on a home network, should I be looking into figuring out how to install and use something like dnscrypt-proxy, or is my current setup "similar enough" in effective security to what I was using before. I'm also aware of Unbound, but not really looking to dive down that rabbit hole to get it set up right now.

I primarily wanted to set up pi-hole to filter ads and block malicious content across the network, and not be overly strict, as there are smart devices and certain websites I want to make sure function without issues.