Setting up Pi-hole

[Sin_Chase]

Too much. You should only need the Hagezi ones and you may find with the pro plus you'll have to whitelist.

I just use the pro with tif and don't run into any issues but YMMV.

This.

I run Hagezi Multi Pro and nothing else. Could consider running the Threat Intelligence Feeds on top but it needs significant resources (2GB Memory )

Also consider whether you need network level blocking of DNS, Encrypted DNS and the addition of a known Encrypted DNS list from Hagezi to avoid devices bypassing your DNS server.

I block DNS and Encrypted DNS on a port and signature basis on my gateway.

 

[chaosophy]

New update...

Release v6.5 · pi-hole/pi-hole

Security This release fixes the following security advisories (credit to the reporters named): High GHSA-cf36-4hhc-8398 (CVSS 7.8): command execution via a crafted PID. Reported by @abdoghazy2015....

github.com

 

[DotA]

Anyone running 2 instances of pihole on the network?

how are you finding it and are they playing well togeather.

Asking as i ran pihole a few years back and found that sometimes it would ignore pihole interally and then on a rehreash of the browser it would work again and have seen that some people are tunning 2 piholes and getting around that problem.

 

[Rob_B]

New update...

Release v6.5 · pi-hole/pi-hole

Security This release fixes the following security advisories (credit to the reporters named): High GHSA-cf36-4hhc-8398 (CVSS 7.8): command execution via a crafted PID. Reported by @abdoghazy2015....

github.com

I thought I'd update so I could compare to how long it used to take on the Pi Zero W vs my current Pi4 4GB. Jesus it was lightning fast, maybe 30 seconds, the Zero used to take about 5 minutes (if it even updated instead of crashing!)

 

[the-evaluator]

Anyone running 2 instances of pihole on the network?

how are you finding it and are they playing well togeather.

Asking as i ran pihole a few years back and found that sometimes it would ignore pihole interally and then on a rehreash of the browser it would work again and have seen that some people are tunning 2 piholes and getting around that problem.

Yep, I've got 2 running without any problems.

 

[SoundsGood]

Anyone running 2 instances of pihole on the network?

how are you finding it and are they playing well togeather.

Asking as i ran pihole a few years back and found that sometimes it would ignore pihole interally and then on a rehreash of the browser it would work again and have seen that some people are tunning 2 piholes and getting around that problem.

Not sure I understand that problem but you could just give the first instance an additional IP address

 

[Armageus]

The only time devices ignore it, is it you set a 2nd DNS server going direct to the router or internet. Just leave the secondary blank and there will be no issue

 

[the-evaluator]

I think there's a common misconception that if a client has 2 DNS servers defined then it'll only use the second one if the first isn't available.

 

[DotA]

Il give it another go then and see if i get the same problems.

 

[Cromulent]

Tried out AdGuard for a couple of weeks and it was OK but I've switched back to Pi-Hole. I'm more used to using it.

 

[Rob_B]

I've got an annoying issue that the pihole won't load up (admin page for example) on firefox on my phone. If i use chrome on my phone it's fine, any browser on my desktop is fine.

It used to work, I've made no changes since it stopped working. I use (and always have) ublock origin and have uninstalled that but no change. No other extensions.

Not the end of the world but very irritating and i don't have the desire to spend time to figure out what's going on!

 

[chaosophy]

cat pihole.toml | grep -in firefox
39: # ESNI is mostly obsolete. It was previously rolled out by Cloudflare and Firefox, but
415: # use-application-dns.net to disable Firefox automatic DNS-over-HTTP?

Not looked into it so no idea if this is related but was messing with pihole earlier and remembered seeing ff mentioned.

 

[Rob_B]

Can't say I understand that but works fine on desktop FF :/
Not a huge issue as I'll always be at home when logging in anyway and could use Pi Connect if not, just annoying

 

[bledd]

I've got an annoying issue that the pihole won't load up (admin page for example) on firefox on my phone. If i use chrome on my phone it's fine, any browser on my desktop is fine.

It used to work, I've made no changes since it stopped working. I use (and always have) ublock origin and have uninstalled that but no change. No other extensions.

Not the end of the world but very irritating and i don't have the desire to spend time to figure out what's going on!

can you get to it via IP?

check you've got https (if using it) in the address bar and the correct port..

 

[Rob_B]

Yep, using IP its fine on desktop and chrome on mobile, just firefox on mobile doesn't work

 

[ChrisD.]

Could it be eMudhra related?