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Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#31

Post by ciarannolan »

surround wrote: post #3

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 especi…

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

Is there a good explainer for CNAME inspection? I'm not finding anything good with my Google Fu.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#32

Post by Moru »

surround wrote: post #3

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 especi…

If you run Windows, it blocks a lot of stuff that isn't browser related. That's why ublock does not get it down to 0 percent.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#33

Post by ciarannolan »

iou wrote: post #28

Alternatively for MAX_lazyness and convenience I've been using https://nextdns.io , does all the same stuff and is the alternative to cloudflare in Firefox for DNS-over-Https (DOH)

Is there an advantage in sending all of your DNS queries to a for-profit company vs. setting up your own Pi-hole?

Their privacy policy seems legit[0] but why trust them at all when Pi-hole is an option?

[0] https://nextdns.io/privacy

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#34

Post by xref »

kylegordon wrote: post #30
xref wrote: post #27

Is there a way to quickly disable/re-enable pihole for the network? With AdGuard DNS or uBlock Origin I still get into situations where occasionally they break a site completely and I have to temporarily disable the plugin (or switch to cell tower dns) to get the site working, so I’d want a quick way out of pi-holing traffic as well

The Web UI has a Disable button, and also quick options for permanent, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 5 minutes, custom, etc. I think there's also an API as well. I can toggle it via Alexa and Home-Assistant. It's a feature that's been around for 2 years or more

“Alexa, shut pihole”

Thanks for the tip, I don’t have any home assistants but this would be the first integration I’d set up

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#35

Post by jzig »

ciarannolan wrote: post #33
iou wrote: post #28

Alternatively for MAX_lazyness and convenience I've been using https://nextdns.io , does all the same stuff and is the alternative to cloudflare in Firefox for DNS-over-Https (DOH)

Is there an advantage in sending all of your DNS queries to a for-profit company vs. setting up your own Pi-hole? Their privacy policy seems legit[0] but why trust them at all when Pi-hole is an option? [0] https://nextdns.io/privacy

max laziness and convenience ;)

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#36

Post by [deleted] »

ciarannolan wrote: post #31
surround wrote: post #3

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 especi…

>I’m especially excited to see CNAME inspection. I was tired of trying to figure out what domains like “xuenl4v1szy8g.cloudfront.net” were doing. Is there a good explainer for CNAME inspection? I'm not finding anything good with my Google Fu.

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Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#37

Post by c0nsumer »

nobodyshere wrote: post #10
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.

I do this too. After throwing around a bunch of other ideas, I realized that a Pi is cheap enough and the one-shot cost is nice. If it dies, I just update the MAC address for its DHCP reservation to the new pi, spend 10 minutes setting up a new instance, and that's that. It just ends up working.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

#40

Post by iou »

jzig wrote: post #35
ciarannolan wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there an advantage in sending all of your DNS queries to a for-profit company vs. setting up your own Pi-hole? Their privacy policy seems legit[0] but why trust them at all when Pi-hole is an option? [0] https://nextdns.io/privacy

max laziness and convenience ;)

^^ this

though they do also have some additional security protections for typosquatting, safebrowsing, homoglyphs, threat-intelligence which is also nice. All of which could be done on a pihole though not out of the box when I last used it ~2 years ago.

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