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Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by oarsinsync »

IntelMiner wrote: post #154

Cross-posting from my comment on Reddit's /r/Linux I'm a little disappointed that they seem to be very uninterested on how to get it working on "unsupported" configurations My x86 gateway currently runs on Gentoo (PFsense kept having random crashing issues) and it's something I'd love to add to it as far as I can tell all Pi-Hole needs is - Lighttpd + PHP (web management portal) - DNSMASq (DNS) - DHCPD (DHCP) - git (…

I understand your position, and I struggle with this a lot myself.

That said, this is one of the drawbacks of freedom and choice. There are so many different distributions, each one with their own quirks, that creates a massive support burden for developers.

Should developers focus on developing their software, or focus on supporting their software on as wide a range of platforms as possible?

Docker in particular helps solve this particular problem. I agree it's not ideal.

The best thing you can do is contribute directly if your platform of choice doesn't have explicit instructions. If that's out of scope for your own skill set, and you don't have the time or inclination to learn on your own, then I'd recommend learning docker instead. It's not terrible.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by oarsinsync »

theshrike79 wrote: post #159
andrei_says_ wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you, I’ve been needing to do this frequently.

What kind of sites, if you don't mind sharing? I've been using pi-hole for 4 years now and I can remember two situations when I had to disable it - and one of those was cloudflare's fault (PS4 cloud saves don't work with 1.1.1.1 DNS)

I needed to do this recently for eflorist.co.uk. I was unable to complete checkout without disabling pihole.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by GekkePrutser »

promofaux wrote: post #162
GekkePrutser wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah that docker is great! Though it lags behind a bit, it's still on 4.2.2.

v5.0 image was released minutes after the main v5.0 release. I've personally not tried :latest, but I am told that works. I prefer to use named tags

I don't think it's live on latest. I just did a fresh pull again (I did it a couple hours ago too) but I don't see the new bar graphs nor the local DNS option.

Edit: Oops I didn't wipe the container. Works now!

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by iRobbery »

Neat app, not using it though due to lack of quality control in the blocklists. Are there any changes yet to the quality control of the blocklists used, or is the author still copying lists from the internet without scrutiny?

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by windex »

Donated once to this fantastic project. I have it running on a VPS+wireguard+firewall and all devices configured to use it even when I am out and about and using the mobile. It performs well enough that all of my family is on it now as well. It's chugging along fine on a 3$ a month VPS and accessible only when logged in via wireguard.

Wireguard is working so well, that I am now thinking of starting up additional services for the family to use. Voip/Filestore, pic library etc etc... all firewalled of course.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by Nextgrid »

neurostimulant wrote: post #69
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)

Too bad in my country all ISPs are required by the government to intercept (or block) all dns requests except their own dns server to block any domain listed in the national domain blocklist database. DNS on port other than 53 is still working though, so I have set up my pihole to use an upstream dns server that accept connection on a higher port and a cloudflare DoH server as a fallback (not sure why but DoH is real…

They could've at least intercepted the requests and applied their blacklist while leaving unblacklisted requests pass through as-is (so you can still use a custom server for the non-banned domains). Not saying I'm in favour of these shenanigans at all but at least if you are forced to do it then better do it with the minimum level of interference possible.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by Tepix »

Looks good! Is anyone else getting this during the update?

    [i] Target: https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
    [] Status: Connection Refused
    [] List download failed: no cached list available
Looking at the query log, I see a fairly large amount of requests 24/7 by my Xiaomi robot vacuum and my Xiaomi desk LED Desk Lamp. I've blocked both of them. Is there any way of disabling the wifi on the desk light completely? Right now i've connected the lamp to my Wifi and blocked it at the router to prevent it from starting its own WiFi network.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by Tepix »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #101
ekovarski wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a great service but only the first 300k queries are free, then you are no longer offered any of the benefits unless you pay $1.99 per month

Is that not a trivial amount for hands off DNS recursion services? Consider the cost to purchase a Raspberry Pi, set it up, electricity, wear and tear on flash storage, etc If you point me at a checkout page for $2/month to not even have to think about plugging a Pi in, I’m going to pull my credit card out in a heartbeat. A single coffee costs me more. Think about your time!

> Think about your time!

Pi-hole is a tool to improve your privacy. Handing all your DNS requests to a 3rd party is the exact opposite. Now you have to deal with their privacy policy, track whether that company got hacked or bought etc.

Installing and maintaining pi-hole takes very little time.

Re: Pi-hole 5.0

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Post by StreamBright »

encom wrote: post #168
IntelMiner wrote: post #154

Cross-posting from my comment on Reddit's /r/Linux I'm a little disappointed that they seem to be very uninterested on how to get it working on "unsupported" configurations My x86 gateway currently runs on Gentoo (PFsense kept having random crashing issues) and it's something I'd love to add to it as far as I can tell all Pi-Hole needs is - Lighttpd + PHP (web management portal) - DNSMASq (DNS) - DHCPD (DHCP) - git (…

I've made this exact argument before, but it was unpopular. I maintain that if your software distrubution model is writing ISO files to SD cards, it's about as retarded as piping `curl` into `bash`. I too run a Gentoo server at home (fist bump), and I'm running `dnsmasq` for filtering and caching, and `stubby` for DNS-over-TLS, and I run this beauty of a cron job every morning: curl -s --compressed -o /var/lib/dnsmas…

The result of this looks a bit mixed up. Are you sure that sedding 0.0.0.0 works? There are some spammers who include 0.0.0.0 in the domain name for example. I used positional splitting with awk to do the same. That worked very well.
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