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Pi-hole is a collection of scripts to enable network-based blocking of advertisements.

Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software.

Pi-hole information can be found on https://pi-hole.net/.

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Pi-Hole 'invades' my landlord's network

Setup: I am a student living in a shared appartment with other students. My landlord lives in the same building and we all use his network (192.168.178.0/24) for internet access. I have my own subnet (192.168.171.0/24) within my room and a router…
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Where should DNS and DHCP servers be located?

I’m setting up a homelab and I’m trying to figure out where the optimal location for the DNS and DHCP server (PiHole) is. The network is structured like this: The majority of devices on the network are connected via WiFi (Phones, laptops, TV, smart…
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How to verify that you're using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) with Quad9 / other non Cloudflare DNS providers

I'm using pihole with an upstream DNS server of Quad9 DoH. The upstream DNS and the pihole are configured with docker via a docker-compose.yml file, with the upstream DoH server using the cloudflared service. version: "3.5" networks: …
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Unbound (with PiHole): Where is root.hints?

I installed unbound to use with pihole with this instruction: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ It says that I don't need to download root.hints, if I use apt install. Because it would download root.hints automatically with the…
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How to get Big Sur to respect local PiHole DNS configuration

I have a service running on a static IP within my LAN and PiHole specifies a domain name for that IP address. For example, my.server.com === 192.168.1.10. Prior to Big Sur, this worked fine. Now, it keeps reverting to whatever global DNS records…
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Pi-hole seems to be blocking itself

I have a brand new install of a Pi-hole on a Raspberry PI on my LAN. I am running into a really funny problem - when I access the Pi-hole instance from my laptop using its domain name (pihole.lan) I get an access denied page from Pi-hole. I am not…
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Why Fedora Workstation 29 send out automatic DNS requests to fedoraproject.org every 3 minutes?

I installed PiHole on my Raspberry Pi and set it as DNS server for my Fedora Workstation. Now I notice that my Fedora Workstation 29 setup requests fedoraproject.org about every 3 minutes. I find this strange and so I Googled and found…
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Mac Ventura 13.4 DNS split-horizon - ping doesn't work but dig does

What's the problem: dig, nslookup can resolve domains using PiHole dns server ping, browser etc. can't What I tried to do: reboot :d flush cache (sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder) add/remove wildcard entries from the…
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Is it possible to replace the DHCP and DNS functionality of your ISP router with a raspberry-pi/pi hole? (More specifically, does DHCP include DNS?)

I have a raspberry pi currently set up with Pi-Hole. Unfortunately, I cannot change the DNS settings on my ISP provided router (called a "Funbox 3.0"). It has a DNS tab with textboxes for "primary IPv4 DNS" and "secondary IPv4 DNS", but they're…
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How do I stop my router from doing DNS resolutions?

I'm using a Pi-hole DNS server in my home network to block advertisements and malicious hosts. Here is my network configuration: My internal home network is on 192.168.34.xxx Network Gateway router (Model TL-R470T+) is at 192.168.34.1 Pi-hole DNS…
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Is it safe to use ARP Poisoning + DNS Spoofing for a PiHole instead of setting it as a DNS Server?

Let's say I have a techno-illiterate friend I would like to set up with a PiHole (DNS Blackhole). Would it be possible (and relatively secure) to configure a Raspberry Pi to be a plug and play device to do this? Specifically what I was imagining was…
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Can't reach OpenVPN server over the internet

I'm struggling since quite some time to get my OpenVPN Server running on my raspberry-pi which already has PiHole running on it. The TLS key negotiation times out after 60 seconds and I don't know why. I port forwarded it in my router on the port…
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How can I speed up page loading times with Brave browser and pi-hole?

I notice that the combination of Brave browser and a pi-hole slowed down several pages such that I have to wait 20-30 seconds before the page is loaded and usable. I tried the following to identify the issue: Used Safari and pi-hole DNS to visit…
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Can a single Raspberry Pi serve as both a pi-hole and media server?

I need to add three functions to my home network: pi-hole media server (for music and video content) NAS (for shared storage) Can a single Raspberry Pi play all those roles?
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Connecting to PiHole changes my computer's hostname?

I followed these instructions to create a VM in Google Cloud Platform that hosts PiHole (a DNS-based ad-blockign service) for me. To prevent the terrors of an open DNS provider, the PiHole is protected behind an OpenVPN server. My router (Asus…
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