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Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by milgrim »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #57
ferminaut wrote: post #29

I know some folks are anti Ubiquiti Unifi on here, but you can run pihole (along with a bunch of other stuff) right on a UDM/UDM-Pro. IMO it makes the most sense to run this on the router, and you can run it in a docker container. If you're looking for a fun hour or two project, check out: https://github.com/boostchicken-dev/udm-utilities/tree/maste...

What sort of cost is associated with pihole, with respect mostly to very latency sensitive things like competitive gaming. Is it problematic?

There should be no cost. Which game will constantly use DNS to resolve addresses after being launched?

Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by Vaslo »

ferminaut wrote: post #29

I know some folks are anti Ubiquiti Unifi on here, but you can run pihole (along with a bunch of other stuff) right on a UDM/UDM-Pro. IMO it makes the most sense to run this on the router, and you can run it in a docker container. If you're looking for a fun hour or two project, check out: https://github.com/boostchicken-dev/udm-utilities/tree/maste...

I have the UDM pro but have been running AdGuard home. I will definitely have to check this out. Thanks!

Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by yzerd »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #57
ferminaut wrote: post #29

I know some folks are anti Ubiquiti Unifi on here, but you can run pihole (along with a bunch of other stuff) right on a UDM/UDM-Pro. IMO it makes the most sense to run this on the router, and you can run it in a docker container. If you're looking for a fun hour or two project, check out: https://github.com/boostchicken-dev/udm-utilities/tree/maste...

What sort of cost is associated with pihole, with respect mostly to very latency sensitive things like competitive gaming. Is it problematic?

PiHole is just a different DNS server - I would assume that is probably a once on connection kind of thing.

Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by harmon »

lousken wrote: post #54
kayson wrote: post #15

While the interface may not be as pretty, you can do the same thing if you're running pfsense using the pfblocker-ng package: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocke... You can also so geo-based IP blocking Combined with pfsense's recursive resolved (unbound), it makes for a pretty great home dns setup.

i am considering pfsense for my homelab setup - can you easily troubleshoot issues and whitelist addresses if you need to?

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Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by [deleted] »

pcl wrote: post #37
ferminaut wrote: post #29

I know some folks are anti Ubiquiti Unifi on here, but you can run pihole (along with a bunch of other stuff) right on a UDM/UDM-Pro. IMO it makes the most sense to run this on the router, and you can run it in a docker container. If you're looking for a fun hour or two project, check out: https://github.com/boostchicken-dev/udm-utilities/tree/maste...

I run a PiHole and a Tailscale exit node on my Unifi routers (previous generation). The Tailscale exit node lets me do both site-to-site VPNs and site-specific egress. The one thing keeping me from site network nirvana is that I haven't quite figured out how to set up a wifi network on the Ubiquiti device that routes all traffic through a given other exit node, however. Someday!

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Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by vorpalhex »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #57
ferminaut wrote: post #29

I know some folks are anti Ubiquiti Unifi on here, but you can run pihole (along with a bunch of other stuff) right on a UDM/UDM-Pro. IMO it makes the most sense to run this on the router, and you can run it in a docker container. If you're looking for a fun hour or two project, check out: https://github.com/boostchicken-dev/udm-utilities/tree/maste...

What sort of cost is associated with pihole, with respect mostly to very latency sensitive things like competitive gaming. Is it problematic?

I run two piholes, rackmounted and battery backed (just plugged into a ups).

DNS performance is very fast, better than ISP dns usually.

General web usage is much, much more pleasant.

No issues with gaming.

Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by more_corn »

prometheus1909 wrote: post #35

I keep seeing posts about Pi Holes and it looks good, but I have previously dealt with ads by appending their delivering sites to my /etc/hosts, i.e. 0.0.0.0 trashsite1.com 0.0.0.0 trashsite2.com The only downside I see is that my approach is not network-wide. Any other reasons I should reconsider?

This is essentially what pihole does, but automatically, using shared lists of ad networks (you can add your own easily). And it’s available to things on your network where you can’t or don’t want to edit etc/hosts (My smart tv used to love to shove ads in my home screen)

It’s an elegant and efficient way of taking back control of your network and the content It shows you.

I run it in a pi zero w with a little wooden case and a low power phone charger (500ma) I Velcroed it to my router.

I highly recommend that everyone do it.

Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by asdkhadsj »

vorpalhex wrote: post #66
asdkhadsj wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What sort of cost is associated with pihole, with respect mostly to very latency sensitive things like competitive gaming. Is it problematic?

I run two piholes, rackmounted and battery backed (just plugged into a ups). DNS performance is very fast, better than ISP dns usually. General web usage is much, much more pleasant. No issues with gaming.

Any recommendation on hardware piholes? I have a UDM Pro but honestly i don't know how much i trust modifying it at all - i've found Ubiquiti software to be iffy... so i'm a bit hesitant to modify anything.

Re: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster

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Post by mFixman »

prometheus1909 wrote: post #35

I keep seeing posts about Pi Holes and it looks good, but I have previously dealt with ads by appending their delivering sites to my /etc/hosts, i.e. 0.0.0.0 trashsite1.com 0.0.0.0 trashsite2.com The only downside I see is that my approach is not network-wide. Any other reasons I should reconsider?

Similarly, why is PiHole better than using a browser ad-blocker?
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