Setting up Pi-hole

Rabtech · 27 Sep 2017 at 23:05

Default:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt

MS Telemetry block list:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/win10/spy.txt

maj · 27 Sep 2017 at 23:39

Rabtech said:
Default:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt

MS Telemetry block list:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/win10/spy.txt

Thanks.

maj · 4 Oct 2017 at 18:35

Anyone had any success blocking Twitch ads? It was suggested to block these:

api.mixpanel.com
spade.twitch.tv
pubads.g.doubleclick.net
sb.scorecardresearch.com

but its made no difference.

Edit. It may be working now that I've cleared my cache.

Steveocee · 5 Oct 2017 at 11:05

maj said:
Anyone had any success blocking Twitch ads?

Yep. Amazon Prime

I've just spun another VM up on my colo to host pihole and pointed it at OpenDNS's family shield servers. Super safe family friendly AND ad-free (for the most part).

Feek · 5 Oct 2017 at 11:24

maj said:
Anyone had any success blocking Twitch ads? It was suggested to block these:

Steveocee said:
Yep. Amazon Prime

I have Amazon Prime and I occasionally watch some content on Twitch. I don't have a Twitch account, what do I need to do here please?

Steveocee · 5 Oct 2017 at 11:33

Feek said:
I have Amazon Prime and I occasionally watch some content on Twitch. I don't have a Twitch account, what do I need to do here please?

Get yourself a twitch account and then go into amazon to link them. I think it's loosely labelled as "Twitch Prime". You get ad-free viewing and a free monthly sub as well. I think you also get some loot crates.

Feek · 5 Oct 2017 at 16:18

Thanks, have done.

Rensin · 19 Oct 2017 at 12:55

I have recently upgraded pi hole to the latest build and since I have noticed I get blank spaces on the log graphs.

Comparing times to my tbb graph it doesn't look like my connection has dropped ... seems to be the same time every morning.

Anyone any ideas please?

maj · 13 Nov 2017 at 22:50

edit: ignore/delete post

Thought I couldn't connect to my pi-hole but it was because I had my VPN on :rolleyes:

bledd · 7 Dec 2017 at 19:46

Big update to Pi-Hole today

To update, in a terminal..

pihole -up

https://pi-hole.net/2017/12/06/pi-h...tics-an-audit-log-colours-and-more/#more-9667

The1nonly1 · 9 Dec 2017 at 13:08

Updated and I much prefer this layout now.

picnic · 10 Dec 2017 at 08:44

This update seems to have broken my display - I don't get any numbers in the boxes showing how many blocked requests/domains etc. Nor graphs when I log in. Yet the log shows the pihole to be doing its job.

Feek · 12 Dec 2017 at 09:09

picnic said:
This update seems to have broken my display - I don't get any numbers in the boxes showing how many blocked requests/domains etc. Nor graphs when I log in. Yet the log shows the pihole to be doing its job.

Clear your browser cache.

picnic · 12 Dec 2017 at 10:45

Doh, thanks that's fixed it

RockLobster · 15 Dec 2017 at 23:37

Very nifty this is. I have an MSDN subscription through work and get Azure credit. I've created an Ubuntu Server VM with this installed and pointed my router at home to look at my VM. It's running a treat. The VM is only taking 40 quid a month of credit. I get £115 a month.

RockLobster · 16 Dec 2017 at 17:14

Decided to ditch Azure VM idea I was getting too much latency. Using pi instead much better

Combat squirrel · 17 Dec 2017 at 13:16

How secure is this ? Followed that page with tons of txt lists (not exe), added it to the pi hole - running it only from my windows pc right now to test before i deploy network wide - seems fast, works ok ? Just wondering how secure as im running my main rig through it.

Running on rasperri pi 1 - latest updated rasperri pi noob OS - changed passwords etc and just installed this - that ok ?

Feek · 17 Dec 2017 at 15:10

Perfectly secure. You're not adding any port forwarding to your router from the outside world to it, it's only accessible from within your network and only DNS requests are passed through it. Security really shouldn't be an issue.

Combat squirrel · 17 Dec 2017 at 15:11

Feek said:
Perfectly secure. You're not adding any port forwarding to your router from the outside world to it, it's only accessible from within your network and only DNS requests are passed through it. Security really shouldn't be an issue.

Cool thanks Feek.

New problem, it seems to block some FB functionality - chat isn't working, ill have to reset the lists and find out which one it was lol

Feek · 17 Dec 2017 at 15:17

I go with the stock lists, I had far too much stuff blocked when adding extra block lists.