Setting up Pi-hole
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Think about it - that's to be expected. When Pi-Hole is down you have no DNS resolution so it's logical that you're having internet access problems.
As a test, keep a continual ping running to 8.8.8.8 whilst you reboot your Pi. I expect that the pings will continue just fine. So your internet connection is actually up the whole time but hte lack of working DNS is causing your problem.
If you're saying that the DNS server doesn't automatically start when your Pi is rebooted then that needs sorting. SSH into the Pi and do 'sudo systemctl enable pihole-FTL.service' and see what it says.
I get the same, from the logs I can see that a dependant service is either not started or not starting in time. I've not looked into it any further, I just manually start pihole after a reboot.
I had a similar thing on Adguard, i think there must have been a parental control option that blocked all youtube comments from loading. I couldn't figure out at first why it was doing it until one day when i was off WiFi and it worked as normal until i joined back to WiFi.
Do you have a secondary DNS server pointing at a public address on your router? If you don't and your primary DNS server goes down, then yes you won't be able to resolve any FQDNs.
There must be a glitch in the latest Pihole as I had to manually restart the DNS Resolver after updating it today.
The only blocklist you 'need' is OISD's aptly-named #1 Blocklist. It ingests dozens of sources including Steven Black's, Energizer, BadBoyz, Easylist/Easyprivacy and tons of others. It removes all dead links, all known false positives, and concatenates them into a single file.
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The dev is very friendly and responsive, and in the last year I've found a grand total of one false positive, which was fixed within an hour of me submitting a report through the site. It's designed to be run as the only list in your setup, and I've literally needed to manually block only two missed domains in over a year - which, again, the dev added to the blocklist within the hour when I told him. Superb, tbh.
The ABP format list is particularly nice as it blocks all subdomains by default, and therefore is way smaller than the full expanded hosts file. I don't think you can use those in PiHole though (I use the far superior AdGuard Home
).You can find the various list formats on the Downloads page here.
Interesting, cheers for that. I have just deleted all my others and added in; https://dbl.oisd.nl/ as a sole resource. Will test how it goes!The only blocklist you 'need' is OISD's aptly-named #1 Blocklist. It ingests dozens of sources including Steven Black's, Energizer, BadBoyz, Easylist/Easyprivacy and tons of others. It removes all dead links, all known false positives, and concatenates them into a single file.
The dev is very friendly and responsive, and in the last year I've found a grand total of one false positive, which was fixed within an hour of me submitting a report through the site. It's designed to be run as the only list in your setup, and I've literally needed to manually block only two missed domains in over a year - which, again, the dev added to the blocklist within the hour when I told him. Superb, tbh.
The ABP format list is particularly nice as it blocks all subdomains by default, and therefore is way smaller than the full expanded hosts file. I don't think you can use those in PiHole though (I use the far superior AdGuard Home
You can find the various list formats on the Downloads page here.
Have you added the wrong format list? For PiHole, you need either the WildCard List (not sure this works, but try it anyway as it's shorter/better of the two) or else the full Hosts List. Unlike AGH, PiHole can't handle ABP format, and needs to have every single subdomain and entry spelled out separately for it, hence bigger lists.
How are you chaps getting along with running only oisd.nl #1 block list? It's been a few days now and I'm curious.
Still doing great for me, I swapped to it as my sole list ages ago now and it never lets me down:
Edit: Derp, just came back to the thread and saw the pic was inserted twice.
Still doing great for me, I swapped to it as my sole list ages ago now and it never lets me down:
Edit: Derp, just came back to the thread and saw the pic was inserted twice.
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I am using PiHole with the osid.nl block list but if I browse to...https://www.thenationalnews.com/sport/football/ or https://www.seattletimes.com/. Just two well known ad filled sites, the adverts are still there. Its blocking a few for me as I can see them in the logs but just not all of them.
Please could someone else check these sites and let me know how it looks on their end.
Note, I am browsing on my phone so I don't have an adblocker installed to the browser which seems to sort the issue when using my laptop or desktop.
Maybe it's not possible to truly block everything or I've just not set it up right!
Please could someone else check these sites and let me know how it looks on their end.
Note, I am browsing on my phone so I don't have an adblocker installed to the browser which seems to sort the issue when using my laptop or desktop.
Maybe it's not possible to truly block everything or I've just not set it up right!
I've got a pair of Pi-Holes running now, one on a Ubuntu VM and one running on a R-Pi 3 Model B.
Is there a way to have the manual DNS entries I create for local hosts to update between the two, ie, so I don't have to enter them onto both of the Pi-Holes.
Is there a way to have the manual DNS entries I create for local hosts to update between the two, ie, so I don't have to enter them onto both of the Pi-Holes.
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The local DNS records are stored in /etc/pihole/custom.list so it's just a case of copying that file over to the other host and restarting Pi-Hole for the new file to be read in.
Somewhere in this thread will be a bash script that I posted (I believe Feek started using it too) that did something very similar to that. It'd be easy enough to modify that script to copy over custom.list.
Somewhere in this thread will be a bash script that I posted (I believe Feek started using it too) that did something very similar to that. It'd be easy enough to modify that script to copy over custom.list.
Soldato
Just installed PiHole in a docker instance on my synology (DS918+/16GB RAM).
Added a couple of lists from here (namely Rainmaker) and my blocked lists has gone from about 78k to nearly 1million - will see how it goes.
Just to query, why do you use Adguard ontop of pihole Rainmaker? What benefits does it give?
Added a couple of lists from here (namely Rainmaker) and my blocked lists has gone from about 78k to nearly 1million - will see how it goes.
Just to query, why do you use Adguard ontop of pihole Rainmaker? What benefits does it give?
I use it for the auto cookie feature.