61–70 of 73 posts
Don't run the pihole on a rpi, a basic computer with a real disk controller will handle the job much better. I ran pihole on an rpi but it kept corrupting the filesystem on any power blip. It isn't the pihole software's fault here.
For me NextDNS is not that usable and is not a finished product because:
a) I need the ability to turn it off temporarily once in a while (even if it’s on a family member’s device)
b) the NextDNS client apps on iOS/iPadOS are abandoned (not updated for years) and the toggle to turn off or on doesn’t reliably work
c) there is hardly any support in the community forums
With the abandoned and flakey client apps, visiting test.nextdns.com would show “unconfigured” or a NextDNS server information randomly. I never know whether it’s really on or not.
Using a VPN profile is recommended through it cannot be easily turned off and on. But even the VPN profile doesn’t work on my Apple TV.
The NextDNS DNS servers around the world seem to work, but the experience on devices is unreliable and poor. If the founders could employ someone to improve the apps and how it works, I’d use it. I had considered a paid subscription a few years ago but didn’t go through because of these experiences.
The pi bit of it is less important than the hole bit of it.
and with things like Tailscale or ZeroTier you can run your pihole at home and use it from anywhere on mobile devices too
I run a couple at home and they've been rock solid in containers on mini-pcs for a long time.
Have to say I've never had a single issue with pihole unlike the OP. It's literally been "install and forget" - not a single outage in maybe 3 years of use. When I use the Internet elsewhere I see what a good job it does when I'm at home...
For home use I'm currently testing out AdGuard Home as it comes as pre installed with the Flint 2 router. I can't get it to work on my phone so I don't see myself switching away from NextDNS any time soon.
Is this a paid article (ad)?
Some of the language does sound like they're pitching a gizmo on TV, to separate retirees from their money. But still within the range of how genuine people sound enthusiastic when they've found a lifehack.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of the language does sound like they're pitching a gizmo on TV, to separate retirees from their money. But still within the range of how genuine people sound enthusiastic when they've found a lifehack.
Genuine people and marketing specialists of a specific selected product to pitch alike. But marketing specialist for sure. By the sound and style of it. Sound like, not saying are.
Have to say I've never had a single issue with pihole unlike the OP. It's literally been "install and forget" - not a single outage in maybe 3 years of use. When I use the Internet elsewhere I see what a good job it does when I'm at home...
Have to say I've never had a single issue with pihole unlike the OP. It's literally been "install and forget" - not a single outage in maybe 3 years of use. When I use the Internet elsewhere I see what a good job it does when I'm at home...
Having said that, I have a Pi running HomeBridge to make a Pi camera and some non Apple Homekit capable IoT shit work with my phones/iPad, and I'm pretty sure the last few times it's rebooted were due to power outages, and I can't remember the last time I needed to even hit the HomeBridge web interface, never mind ssh into it. I'm a little surprised unscheduled power outages haven't borked the sd card, it's not even configured to do the ramfs overlay thing.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm one of those users -- I set up a pihole as my DHCP server to get ad blocking on all devices on my network a few years ago and haven't really thought about it since. Raspberry Pi was familiar enough. Networking in general is mostly Greek to me, so it wasn't the easiest thing to do, but it's pretty much been set-and-forget since the initial setup (aside from updating pihole itself and the web interface every few mo…
Easiest first step is to see if your current router has support for OpenWRT. I find OpenWRT kinda hard to use, but a lot of people swear by it and it's very capable even. More powerful options are projects like PfSense or Opnsense, but those require more expensive hardware and for most uses you probably also need a separate switch. I personally use PfSense and find it relatively easy to use while being extremely powe…