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Pi-Hole, a software known as a "DNS-Sinkhole" that protects your devices from unwanted content like Online Advertising.

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PiHole Not Resolving Local DNS Entries for clients with static IPs

I have a Raspberry Pi 2 running Pi Hole 5.2.2 and Cisco Linksys E2000 router running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) std-usb-ftp I want to be able to have PiHole resolve a DNS entry such as MyDevice to an ...
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Pi-Hole + Unbound ==> Unbound anchor not ok // SERVFAIL

Problem with unbound and pi-hole I followed the official guide for installing Unbound alongside Pi-hole for my network, see Setting up Pi-hole as a recursive DNS server solution A week ago I first ...
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Pi-hole not accepting local DNS

I have setup pi-hole on a local linux server using docker-compose, the server uses the local IP 192.168.x.123. Here's my docker-compose.yml: version: "3" services: pihole: ...
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Why can I SSH in to my Pi, but can't access the network from it?

I recently re-arranged my home office, which required unplugging my router and Raspberry Pi 3 (among other things). Despite changing nothing besides the ethernet cable, I am now encountering the ...
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Pi-Hole Lighttpd

Does anyone know how I can use the pi-holes created lighttpd server with another application? I don't want to install Apache next to lighttpd... Or change the default ports.. It seems like the ...
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Want to change functions between two Raspberry Pi 4 model b units

I currently have a Raspberry Pi 4 model B (4gb ram) that i bought and used it to setup Pihole on my home network. I admit it was a bit overkill but i wanted to implement Pihole before I made my ...
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Using Pi-Hole with USB Tether to Eth0 Bridge

New to the forums. Forgive me if my first question isn't that easy to understand. I'll try my best. For some background: I installed and configured pi-hole previously for an internet service that we ...
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Whenever I go to my local Pihole website it displays the php file contents instead of the website

It´s really simple. I go to my pihole dashboard and this shows up:
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PiHole with Recursive DNS not Handshaking with Wireguard setup via PiVPN

Expected Behaviour: I've set my Router to use my PiHole along with Wireguard to use it as a VPN. I've set it up using PIVPN and some tutorials on Youtube. I have included Screenshots of my router and ...
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How to use only pi-hole dns in Windows 10 client, exclude router dns

I have installed pi-hole on two Raspberry Pi 4 devices. Both are connected to my network and working. I have an ATT router, so I cannot change the DNS servers in the router. I am attempting to set ...
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Has the Raspberry Pi Zero enough power to act both as a Pihole and a print server?

My family has a vacation home were there is an old printer that does not have Wifi. The house also lacks an ad blocker so i thought: why not fixing both with a Raspberry Pi? I still have an unused ...
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How to troubleshoot DHCP Pi-hole connectivity issues?

I have a Pi 4 (4GB) with Raspberry Pi OS. I have installed Pi-hole. The Raspberry PI IP: 192.168.0.5 The Router IP: 192.168.0.1 I set the DHCP range in Pi-hole to 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254 (which ...
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Adding shared USB key to a Raspberry Pi that is running Pi-Hole

I have an original Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole that is working successfully. I was wondering whether I could connect a USB key to the R-Pi to act as shared network storage on my LAN. To get Pi-Hole ...
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Pihole only resolves clients names on IPv4

I have setup Pihole on my Pi and evrything works except the client resolvement. Ipv4 adresses get resolved in the certain names i have set in my Router but IPv6 adresses dont get set. I have set ULA ...
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RASPAP and Pi-Hole

I have RPI 3B+ with lastest version of raspbian and I have installed RASPAP (default settings) and it works very well. I have internet :) IP: 10.3.141.100/24 GW: 10.3.141.1 Today I installed Pi-Hole, ...
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Old IP keeps coming back

I got a new router, and my raspberry pi keeps adding the old IP to my system everyday. I have tried assigning a static ip, flushing the interface, making sure that the old ip is in none of the files, ...
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Pi-hole vs dd-wrt script

I own a TP Link 1043nd router with dd-wrt on it. I am able to block ads in my whole network using a firewall script. I am considering to build a pi-hole ad blocker. Is it a good idea to shift to pi ...
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Installing Network Manager on Causes Raspberry Pi To Stop Working

I have a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W that I am using to setup Pi-hole by following this guide. The guide requires me to use nmcli, which requires me to setup Network Manager. I am following this guide to ...
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Problem with keepalived startup

I run pihole across two Raspberry PIs, an older PI 3B+ (server B) and a 4 (server A). Both are running Bullseye. Simply because the 4 is new and a little more powerful, it is used as the primary ...
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Running pihole as a DHCP server stops working after a while

I'm running pi-hole in a Proxmox container. I followed this tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFtWsZ8IP0&t=718s&ab_channel=CraftComputing In it I set custom DNS in PiHole - 127.0.0.1#...
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Pi hole and independent wifi access point

I'm currently using pihole also as DHCP server (i.e. I deactivated DHCP server on my router and let my pi serving IPs). My pi is connected solely via ethernet (I disabled wifi via /boot/config.txt). ...
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Create DNS entry for docker container in Pi-hole

My dockerized web server is accessible on my LAN with its host name, let's say, jarvis (url: http://jarvis/). I have a Gitea instance running in my local network which is accessible via http://jarvis:...
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Error no 104 is displayed when trying to download pihole

I am trying to add pihole to my network but when I type the curl -sSL command, it gives some checks and then says this - so basically, I don't understand what am I meant to do here? EDIT: Sorry guys, ...
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5-second increment pauses on Pi Zero W

I've recently set up a Pi Zero W with the as-of-writing most recent Pi OS Lite image. It is connected to my home network via Ethernet and has Pi-hole installed on it. I found that during setup and, ...
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Can't connect to PiVPN (WireGuard) - what am I missing?

I'm looking for some help to get my PiVPN running correctly. I have PiHole installed on a Raspberry Pi and I'm now trying to install PiVPN on it to be able to make use of the ad blocking while I'm on ...
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Extremely slow WireGuard speeds?

I am using PiVPN WireGuard and Pi-hole to get ad-blocking when I am not at home. I am also using it to access a web server I have setup in the LAN. My home router speeds are ~120-150mbps up/down, and ...
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Can't ping or SSH into my pi after update

I'm running a headless Pi-Hole. Went ahead with update/upgrade using SSH from my windows machine, which stalled for about an hour. Couldn't connect via SSH anymore. Thinking it had finished, I ...
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PiHole not blocking advertisements

I installed and updated Raspbian OS and PiHole on a Raspberry Pi Zero W. But the adblocking feature is not working. I am attempting to make RPi as DNS for my modem over ethernet. I have assigned fixed ...
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Can you setup both Pi-Hole and PfSense on one Raspberry Pi?

I am using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and I would like to setup PfSense and Pi-Hole on the same device. Is that possible? Any guidelines would be appreciated.
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Access ports with specific address

I've set up Pi-hole to manage my network, and it is installed on a Raspberry pi 4 that already handles some stuff, for instance, an R-shiny server on port 3838 and a homeassistant installation on port ...
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PiVPN with Wireguard drops wifi connection

I have recently set up a Raspberry4 and installed pihole and pipvpn using wireguard on it. pihole serves as DNS for my VPN as well, DHCP is still configured on my local router and the raspberry is ...
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Raspbian 9.9 Stretch - Network is unreachable

I have pihole(with DHCP server enabled, router DHCP server disabled) and SMB running on my raspberry pi, and my network interfaces are acting rather strange. From my raspberry pi, I can ping my router ...
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Why is the FTL service offline and the DNS service not running?

Firstly, I'm pretty aware of technology and how it works but I am no network engineer and very new to Linux/Raspberry Pi. I just installed Raspbian then Pi-Hole and got the ad blocker working fine. ...
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Possible to create RPi3 Wifi Access Point with Pi Hole and OpenVPN

I would like to create an all-in-one RPi-3 device running Raspbian that, when I connect to its wifi access point, will route traffic through both an external VPN (e.g. Unblock-US) and the Pi Hole ad ...
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Pi Hole Local DNS Not Working

My routers DHCP is set up to use pihole as the default DNS for clients on my network. I am trying to access local web services using the local DNS feature in pihole. The hostnames seems to resolve ...
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Is it safe to power a Raspberry Pi Zero W with a Fritz!Box USB-port?

As many others im getting a Zero W for PiHole and i would like to power it using the usb-port of my wifi router. However, im concerned about undervoltage. I read the Zero W wants 1,2A, but usb 2.0 ...
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How Do I Change Pi-Hole's URL from 192.168.x.x:8080 to pi.hole?

I am running PiHole and HomeBridge on the same server and am looking to have 192.168.x.x:8080 forward to the PiHole by setting up a DNS record for pi.hole. How is this done?
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How to setup pi-hole on rpi running wireless ap?

I have rpi setup as wireless ap using the below link as instructions. Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point - the easy way My exact setup is the one marked as 'recommended' in above link. I ...
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