#1 2017-09-08 21:25:05

dbvolvox

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From: England

Registered: 2015-09-29

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Pi-Hole

Is anyone else using Pi-hole?
It is a different approach to ad blocking. It sits in your network as a DNS server that filters out requests based on blacklists (currently 117,200 domains) and then routes your filtered requests to your usual DNS service.
 
A few weeks ago I installed Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi Model B and it works a treat. It is powered off the USB of my router so no noise and v little power consumed.

See  https://pi-hole.net/ for the details and benefits.

See this blog post if you want/need detailed installation instructions.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2017/ … r-blocking

The benefits go beyond ad blocking into security because you can see from the dashboard if there are sudden or unusual requests. It may be possible to get statistics to show in Conky!?

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qcgxr

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Registered: 2016-08-31

Posts: 29

Re: Pi-Hole

I had it up for a bit when it first came out. Did they end up adding DNSCrypt support or caching? I ended up ditching it for vanilla Debian (Armbian actually) on which I run Unbound, DNSCrypt, Squid3, OpenVPN, as well as a bunch of random other things. No pretty graphics though.