Setting up Pi-hole

As this seems really popular
Does anyone notice a bottleneck with the raspberry pi?

Most speed tests on the pi's eth0 seem to max at ~70Mbps download :confused: ref ref2
Raspberrypi's still use internal ethernet over USB? (check dmesg | grep eth0)
Code: 
smsc95xx v1.0.4
smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-bcm2708_usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet
 
The amount of traffic that DNS generates is tiny and it uses very little bandwidth. There's no issues at all with the ethernet port on the RPi.

My Pi has been up for about 5 days and the total traffic on eth0 is 166Mb RX, 48.4Mb TX. That includes the traffic generated by a couple of 'apt-get update' and traffic to the Pi-Hole web interface.

Code: 
root@rapihole:~:$ ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:df:ba:ca  
          inet addr:192.168.8.2  Bcast:192.168.8.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::9e92:890d:ac63:b7db/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1216829 errors:0 dropped:103422 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:393919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:174757388 (166.6 MiB)  TX bytes:50778894 (48.4 MiB)

root@rapihole:~:$ uptime
 17:28:15 up 5 days,  2:55,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@rapihole:~:$
 
the-evaluator;30480302 said:
The amount of traffic that DNS generates is tiny and it uses very little bandwidth. There's no issues at all with the ethernet port on the RPi.

My Pi has been up for about 5 days and the total traffic on eth0 is 166Mb RX, 48.4Mb TX. That includes the traffic generated by a couple of 'apt-get update' and traffic to the Pi-Hole web interface.

Code: 
root@rapihole:~:$ ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:df:ba:ca  
          inet addr:192.168.8.2  Bcast:192.168.8.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::9e92:890d:ac63:b7db/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1216829 errors:0 dropped:103422 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:393919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:174757388 (166.6 MiB)  TX bytes:50778894 (48.4 MiB)

root@rapihole:~:$ uptime
 17:28:15 up 5 days,  2:55,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
root@rapihole:~:$
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Ah cool

I thought this project was one of the ones where you use the rpi as a gateway/proxy like SquidGuard. :)
 
sHo0sH;30479995 said:
Updated this today - Guardian website is showing ads and so is youtube. Any ideas?
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Haven't updated but am getting YouTube ads, too.
 
Feek said:
Before Christmas, Amazon were doing the Pi3 starter kit for £42. I bought two of them, wish I'd had a couple more as that deal has gone up to £50 now.
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FYI a Raspberry Pi 3 Value Starter Kit is now £39.99 from Amazon
 
Are you guys manually running the pihole -up command or has anyone else stuck it into crontab?
I've put it on both my servers as DNS 1 & 2 and running the command weekly
 
I run it manually when I do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Personally I wouldn't do it unattended because a major version upgrade put password protection on the web interface and had I not seen mention of that at the consoel when doing the upgrade I'd be stuck for a while until I realised how to reset the password.

I have shoved 'pihole -g' and 'pihole restartdns' into a cron job that fires at 2am every day,
 
Aggravatingly I've just started to get adverts on YouTube and also on a website or 2 that I know pi-hole previously stopped them on.
 
the-evaluator said:
I run it manually when I do an apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Personally I wouldn't do it unattended because a major version upgrade put password protection on the web interface and had I not seen mention of that at the consoel when doing the upgrade I'd be stuck for a while until I realised how to reset the password.

I have shoved 'pihole -g' and 'pihole restartdns' into a cron job that fires at 2am every day,
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I've just changed mine from -up to -g. I didn't realise you could do the ad domain lists on their own. Nice one Thanks
 
Steveocee said:
Aggravatingly I've just started to get adverts on YouTube and also on a website or 2 that I know pi-hole previously stopped them on.
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Triple post!!!
I've just noticed when I updated the domains that there were 6 domains in whitelist which I certainly hadn't put there. May have been my issue.
 
Steveocee said:
Triple post!!!
I've just noticed when I updated the domains that there were 6 domains in whitelist which I certainly hadn't put there. May have been my issue.
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Pi-hole automatically whitelists the domains where it gets the ad-lists from; It's worth checking but they shouldn't be ad serving domains.
 
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