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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 para_parolu »

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 another point of view as a non-pro user. The leas thing my router is doing the better. I want my router software be as simple as possible to reduce possible bugs. Plus I want it to put all cpu time onto processing packets. I would consider using pihole like functionality if it’s baked in firmware. But definitely don’t want to install extra software.

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

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Post by cassianoleal »

codemac wrote: post #91

I found this basically only helped for laptops. Our phones and smart devices all use either DoH or hardcode a specific DNS resolver. I haven't spent the time going all the way down to re-routing all port 53 traffic, but I doubt it'll do much. To me the future of the home network is largely dead as long as I can't reasonably manage the software on these devices.

> Our phones and smart devices all use either DoH or hardcode a specific DNS resolver

My phone uses whatever DNS I configure it to use. When I'm at home, it uses my PiHole.

If you mean individual apps going their own way, that's a different problem.

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

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Post by RachelF »

0daystock wrote: post #2

Won't be long now until IoT and other crap-ware devices catch on to this trend and start hard-coding DNS servers in code, or worse, using DNS encryption to avoid this sort of routine blocking by end-users. I wonder how people are thinking about solving this problem.

Microsoft already does this in Windows 8, 10 and 11 with their "telemetry" servers.

The DNS queries for these bypass any of your own DNS settings.

They even bypass host file overrides.

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

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Post by vorpalhex »

dmead wrote: post #72
vorpalhex wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

there will be issues if you play halo. it depends on some telemetry stuff in windows that is typically blocked by this sort of thing.

Played 1 and 2 of the remastered edition, no issues here.

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

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Post by vorpalhex »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #68
vorpalhex wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I run two Pi4s with the filesystem on a usb drive, which is probably a bit overkill but I keep some monitoring on them too. In Unifi Routing, give the piholes a fixed ip and swap your dhcp server to have manual DNS entries - you might need to do this in the classic settings view.

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

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK »

Obviously, people whose products rely on those ads and telemetry, won't be happy and will try to retaliate, for example, by refusing you service. This frequently happens because of my usage of VPNs and ublock. In that case I have an option to quickly turn vpn/ublock off for that specific web site or service. In your case it's not so easy.

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Post by heavyset_go »

EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK wrote: post #147

Obviously, people whose products rely on those ads and telemetry, won't be happy and will try to retaliate, for example, by refusing you service. This frequently happens because of my usage of VPNs and ublock. In that case I have an option to quickly turn vpn/ublock off for that specific web site or service. In your case it's not so easy.

Plenty of ad-serving companies have found their way around DNS adblocking, including the top players in that market.

Encrypted DNS looks like any other encrypted stream, there's no reason for subversive apps to rely on DHCP provided DNS servers when they can be guaranteed to serve ads without them.

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

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Post by heavyset_go »

0daystock wrote: post #2

Won't be long now until IoT and other crap-ware devices catch on to this trend and start hard-coding DNS servers in code, or worse, using DNS encryption to avoid this sort of routine blocking by end-users. I wonder how people are thinking about solving this problem.

Already happening, Google products like the Chromecast serve up plenty of obnoxious ads these days, and hardcode Google DNS. Even blocking Google DNS still allows ads to get through.

This is a big reason why I will never buy another Chromecast branded product, or Google product, again. Congratulations on successfully monetizing my time and annoying me into swearing off Google products altogether.

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