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Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Post by goblin89 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:05 PM UTC

Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements
pi-hole.net

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Post by gravypod » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

What kind of minimum resources are required to run this? Can I run this on my 128MB VM?

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Post by philplckthun » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:39 PM UTC

This is really neat! I'm wondering why the name is so Raspberry Pi-specific ;)

Is there a docker container for it already, by any chance?

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Post by harryf » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

Cache https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0qPVd8...

Also github project explains https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

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Post by gr00 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:45 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #2

What kind of minimum resources are required to run this? Can I run this on my 128MB VM?

I'm running this on my chip. https://getchip.com/pages/chip

I don't see any reason why this wouldn't run well on a pi-zero. It doesn't do much beyond DNS.

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Post by majewsky » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:46 PM UTC

gravypod wrote: post #2

What kind of minimum resources are required to run this? Can I run this on my 128MB VM?

Most definitely, although it of course depends on what else you're running on that VM. I have a home server running, among other things, a very similar setup [1] based on dnsmasq and a simple shell script cronjob, and the dnsmasq weighs in at ~12 MB memory usage (RSS).

[1] https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/bf0f2b...

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Post by pjc50 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

philplckthun wrote: post #3

This is really neat! I'm wondering why the name is so Raspberry Pi-specific ;) Is there a docker container for it already, by any chance?

From Br. Eng. "shut your piehole" (slang), meaning "shut up".

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Post by gcb0 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

solution that doesn't require a dns server (or can be a dns server local cache)

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

I add this to my modem/wifi ap. and then just let every device use it to resolve. if the device allows to set a hostfile, I also add a local copy for when iam not in my network.

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Post by dbg31415 » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 2:57 PM UTC

gcb0 wrote: post #8

solution that doesn't require a dns server (or can be a dns server local cache) http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ I add this to my modem/wifi ap. and then just let every device use it to resolve. if the device allows to set a hostfile, I also add a local copy for when iam not in my network.

* GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Extending and consolidating hosts files from a variety of sources like adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomainlist.com, someonewhocares.org, yoyo.org, and potentially others. You can optionally invoke extensions to block additional sites by category. || https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Direct link:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...

Also, I think OpenDNS blocks ads too. Haven't tried it in a few years though.

* Home Internet Security | OpenDNS || https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/

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Post by mirimir » Mon, Mar 13, 2017, 3:03 PM UTC

Porting this to FreeBSD/pfSense would be cool.