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A quick note for those that run pihole from an Ubuntu VM, the minimum Ubuntu version that pihole now supports is 20.04 - just had to upgrade a couple of 18.04 VM instances which I and a friend host.
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Yeah, I need to get around to that same upgrade at some point.
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Woke up this morning to find my computer couldn't get online. It had an IP address starting 169.254.x.x. I could get online with my phone once I turned the Wifi off and found there was no VM issues in my area. I was just about able to check my VM hub hadn't re-enabled its DHCP before I lost connection to that. I'd managed to set up a manual IP address for a computer I have downstairs next to the router but then lost connection.
I ended up switching the VM hub off twice and on the second time, with my Pi-Hole not connected to the router, the VM hub worked, had network and Internet access. I was then able to get into the P-Hole to find over 700 errors for this message, "not giving name HOSTNAME to the DHCP lease of ADDRESS because the name exists in SOURCE with address CACHE_ADDR".
I saw that my Pi-Hole DHCP was set to use IP addresses 192.168.0.200 upwards whereas my VM hub was going from 192.168.0.10 so I wonder if the devices couldn't be transferred from their usual range on the VM hub to the 192.168.0.200-251 in the middle of the night? Anyway I have now given my devices a static DHCP lease which I hope will prevent this issue coming back again.
I ended up switching the VM hub off twice and on the second time, with my Pi-Hole not connected to the router, the VM hub worked, had network and Internet access. I was then able to get into the P-Hole to find over 700 errors for this message, "not giving name HOSTNAME to the DHCP lease of ADDRESS because the name exists in SOURCE with address CACHE_ADDR".
I saw that my Pi-Hole DHCP was set to use IP addresses 192.168.0.200 upwards whereas my VM hub was going from 192.168.0.10 so I wonder if the devices couldn't be transferred from their usual range on the VM hub to the 192.168.0.200-251 in the middle of the night? Anyway I have now given my devices a static DHCP lease which I hope will prevent this issue coming back again.
Soldato
That's what I did. Turned DHCP on the VM hub off then activated DHCP on the Pi-Hole. If I could find the logs I could double check the error message and research what caused them but only my Pi-Hole was running the DHCP.
Soldato
Sorry if I didn't make it clear. I signed into my VM Hub and had the DHCP page open then the same on the Pi-Hole. Turned DHCP off on VM Hub, saved and signed out. Went to Pi-Hole, turned DHCP on and saved. Bit of a learning curve but hopefully now I've told the Pi-Hole to use from 192.168.0.10 upwards instead of from .200 upwards and giving my network devices a static DHCP lease will prevent it from happening again.
Soldato
Has anyone with a Samsung TV blocked any domains to prevent their Samsung TV getting ads? I found this list and wondered if anyone had either used it or come up with their own one?
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Samsung Smart-TV Blocklist Adlist (for PiHole)
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I used to have a list for Samsung TVs which worked perfectly, unfortunately it's dead now but you have nothing to lose from trying it.
Soldato
Hi Feek. Yep I thought when I have a few hours spare I can try the list and see how it works. I don't suppose you've still got your Samsung TV list by any chance?
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Nope, it was a link, not an actual list. The URL was https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/SamsungSmart.txt but that's dead now.
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Did you manage to get this up and running fine on your pi?Has anyone with a Samsung TV blocked any domains to prevent their Samsung TV getting ads? I found this list and wondered if anyone had either used it or come up with their own one?
Samsung Smart-TV Blocklist Adlist (for PiHole)
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Just use the Perflyst/DandelionSprout Smart-TV Blocklist. It's updated and works, and includes domains for all common SmartTV shenanigans.
PiHole (domain format)
AdGuard Home etc (AdBlock Plus syntax format)
PiHole (domain format)
AdGuard Home etc (AdBlock Plus syntax format)
Soldato
Not yet, haven't had time to be in front of the TV to test it.
Will give that a go sometime. Thanks.
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Any news if you managed to get Samsung TV blocked list up & running on pi-hole? Is it effective enough to block ads but still manage to update apps? Cheers
Soldato
No, I just used the Perflyst/DandelionSprout Smart-TV Blocklist as suggested by Rainmaker. Haven't really checked for ads but will try to tomorrow.
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Just updated my pihole......
ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 11:00 conf-available
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 11:00 conf-enabled
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 14 2022 external.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2959 Jan 21 11:00 lighttpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5679 Dec 1 20:32 lighttpd.conf.orig
edit:this...
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Oh dear!ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 11:00 conf-available
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 21 11:00 conf-enabled
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 14 2022 external.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2959 Jan 21 11:00 lighttpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5679 Dec 1 20:32 lighttpd.conf.orig
edit:this...
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Soldato
New to SBC's. Not techy at all but just got an orange pi zero 2 to run pihole. Blocking about 1500 queries a day 
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Commissario
Useful tip.New to SBC's. Not techy at all but just got an orange pi zero 2 to run pihole. Blocking about 1500 queries a day
From the dashboard, select adlists.
Add https://dbl.oisd.nl
I've turned off the default block lists and only use that one.