Pi-hole 5.0

#1

Post by Iolaum » Sun, May 10, 2020, 9:32 PM UTC

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#2

Post by notkaiho » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

Pi-Hole has made my home browsing experience so much better since setting it up. Minimal resource overhead, maximum results - and if you care about stats those are available too but I just turned all logging off.

Now if it could just filter out YouTube ads...

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#3

Post by surround » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:24 PM UTC

Pi-hole is very easy to set up, and it works so well you can basically forget about it from that point on. Blocking ads is nice, but it’s also a huge boon for privacy. I run uBlock origin on all my browsers, but Pi-hole still blocks 30-50% of requests on my network. It’s also really nice to be able to glance at the logs and get an idea of what’s going on on your network, or if there’s any unusual activity.

I’m especially excited to see CNAME inspection. I was tired of trying to figure out what domains like “xuenl4v1szy8g.cloudfront.net” were doing.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#4

Post by disiplus » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:25 PM UTC

does anybody know how to properly secure the the DNS server from replay attacks with iptables.

i have a pihone running on a cheap vps on internet, but i connect to it with a vpn and that's draining my smartphone battery. i want to be able to change only the dns settings and point to my pi-hole. but at that time the recommendation was to not run the dns part on the internet because it could be used for dns replay attacks. i found some iptables rules on the net at time but was not sure are they ok. i did not want the ip address blacklisted because i was running some other services on that server.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#5

Post by ycombonator » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:26 PM UTC

I host pihole on Digital Ocean. Updated DNS on all my home clients. Smooth and adfree

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#6

Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

Per client blocking is clearly the biggest change. I am excited about this.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#7

Post by xienze » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

notkaiho wrote: post #2

Pi-Hole has made my home browsing experience so much better since setting it up. Minimal resource overhead, maximum results - and if you care about stats those are available too but I just turned all logging off. Now if it could just filter out YouTube ads...

> Now if it could just filter out YouTube ads...

Ive heard that the problem is that the native YT apps come with a big list of IP addresses for the ad servers, instead of doing lookups.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#8

Post by disiplus » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:30 PM UTC

notkaiho wrote: post #2

Pi-Hole has made my home browsing experience so much better since setting it up. Minimal resource overhead, maximum results - and if you care about stats those are available too but I just turned all logging off. Now if it could just filter out YouTube ads...

> vanced.app

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#9

Post by nobodyshere » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:32 PM UTC

disiplus wrote: post #8

notkaiho wrote: post #2

Pi-Hole has made my home browsing experience so much better since setting it up. Minimal resource overhead, maximum results - and if you care about stats those are available too but I just turned all logging off. Now if it could just filter out YouTube ads...

> vanced.app

I'd rather recommend this one:

https://newpipe.schabi.org/

At least it is opensource and works great.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#10

Post by nobodyshere » Sun, May 10, 2020, 10:33 PM UTC

ycombonator wrote: post #5

I host pihole on Digital Ocean. Updated DNS on all my home clients. Smooth and adfree

I do it on a PoE powered raspberry pi. Minimal effort, zero maintenance, no fees other than the initial purchase.