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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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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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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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ufw forward rule isn't working: connection refused

I'm running a Raspberry Pi and I'm trying to get Pi-hole working. I'm running the container from Podman from a newly created pi-hole user (non root). I published the ports as follows: - 127.0.0.1:5053:53/tcp - 127.0.0.1:5053:53/udp -…
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Pi-hole logging with client names

Situation I am using Pihole in a network with a google wifi router. The router (...1.1) is configured to use the Pihole server (...1.220) for DNS lookup, and all is working as wanted. So far, so good. My question is related to the following…
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Setup LocalCDN or similar CDN replacer to run locally network-wide

Big companies like Google, Akamai, Cloudflare, are likely suspects when it comes to tracking, and fingerprinting is a big issue that most people don't know about it. If you have large companies tracking or cross-referencing every library you load,…
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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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How to setup two subnets using two routers at home?

I want to connect some devices to the internet and have them isolated from the rest of my network. Since I also want to use PiHole, I also don't want the DNS resolution of the "outer" network to be affected. My setup is the following: Internet <--…
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How do I configure Pi-Hole to serve 192.168.0.0/16

Situation: A standard install of Pi-Hole on a VM under Proxmox running on 192.168.1.2. Versions are Pi-Hole v5.18.2 FTL v5.25.1 Web Interface v5.21, under Ubuntu 22.04. For the address space 192.168.1.0/24 it works just fine. Neither Proxmox nor the…
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How to prevent Windows 11 client bypassing pi-hole?

I have set up a pi-hole. It is running and reachable on my LAN via IP4 at 192.168.178.53. On my router I made its address static, it always gets the same address. My router also announces this DNS server to every client. On basically all my devices…
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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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How to set Pi-hole as my DNS server on a Wireguard client

I am trying to setup a Wireguard VPN on a remote Debian server and use Pi-hole on that same server. I installed both of them as Docker containers. For Wireguard I have used wg-easy and for Pi-hole I have used the install script from the…
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