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Thanks for sharing this. Just installed it myself. Was a bit of a faff as kept running into an FTL error during the installation process, which I think was because the DNS on the Pi-hole had been set during the installation but that meant it couldn't then download the rest of the files needed to complete it - effectively it was blocking itself(!) Anyway, got around it and now have a functioning ad blocker.
Tip to anyone installing this who is using a BT Home Hub. You cannot set the DNS on a Home Hub so you'll need to activate DHCP on the Pi-hole (in Settings>DHCP in the Pi-hole dashboard) and disable it in the Home Hub settings. Then you'll have to reconnect your devices that were connected with DHCP or Static to allow them to benefit from Pi-hole.
Tip to anyone installing this who is using a BT Home Hub. You cannot set the DNS on a Home Hub so you'll need to activate DHCP on the Pi-hole (in Settings>DHCP in the Pi-hole dashboard) and disable it in the Home Hub settings. Then you'll have to reconnect your devices that were connected with DHCP or Static to allow them to benefit from Pi-hole.
nmd87 said:
Tip to anyone installing this who is using a BT Home Hub. You cannot set the DNS on a Home Hub so you'll need to activate DHCP on the Pi-hole (in Settings>DHCP in the Pi-hole dashboard) and disable it in the Home Hub settings. Then you'll have to reconnect your devices that were connected with DHCP or Static to allow them to benefit from Pi-hole.
Or alternatively if it is only a small number of devices you want to use it, then specifically set the DNS of those devices to the IP address of the Pi. 
PF62 said:
nmd87 said:
Tip to anyone installing this who is using a BT Home Hub. You cannot set the DNS on a Home Hub so you'll need to activate DHCP on the Pi-hole (in Settings>DHCP in the Pi-hole dashboard) and disable it in the Home Hub settings. Then you'll have to reconnect your devices that were connected with DHCP or Static to allow them to benefit from Pi-hole.
Or alternatively if it is only a small number of devices you want to use it, then specifically set the DNS of those devices to the IP address of the Pi.
Been testing over a couple of days, I have the default blacklists enabled and I switched off my web-browser ad blocks. All good and browsing does feel quicker, noticed I get a few white empty blocks instead of ads, PH has a big block across the top of the page, enabling adblock in Safari gets rid of this, need to decide if I keep both running.
I have a BT youview box that I use for catch-up. I have blacklisted tom.itv.com in Pihole which has removed the ads during steaming, however whilst watching Endeavour on catch up last night, when the ad break came it skipped back to the start of the programme, also the programme froze a couple of times. Not sure if the Pihole was causing this or just a bad stream. Will try again with another programme
I have a BT youview box that I use for catch-up. I have blacklisted tom.itv.com in Pihole which has removed the ads during steaming, however whilst watching Endeavour on catch up last night, when the ad break came it skipped back to the start of the programme, also the programme froze a couple of times. Not sure if the Pihole was causing this or just a bad stream. Will try again with another programme
megaphone said:
Has anyone tried this https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/ ?
Yep but cloudflared wouldn't run on my Pi. Maybe you need a newer architecture, mine is quite an old pi. Do let me know if you get it working!megaphone said:
Has anyone tried this https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/ ?
Yes - worked a treat. Pi3 B+.rednotdead said:
megaphone said:
Has anyone tried this https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/ ?
Yes - worked a treat. Pi3 B+.megaphone said:
Has anyone tried this https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/ ?
Yebo. Works like a dream on my Pi4.megaphone said:
rednotdead said:
megaphone said:
Has anyone tried this https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/ ?
Yes - worked a treat. Pi3 B+.
I've been running a Pi-Hole for a couple of months now.
It really works well, though I've had some issues at first which seemed to be caused by a duff SD card.
If you want to take things up a notch, consider using unbound, which allows you to contact the root DNS servers instead of relying on Google, Comodo, Cloudflare or some other DNS server: here and here
Mine runs on a Pi Zero W by the way
It really works well, though I've had some issues at first which seemed to be caused by a duff SD card.
If you want to take things up a notch, consider using unbound, which allows you to contact the root DNS servers instead of relying on Google, Comodo, Cloudflare or some other DNS server: here and here
Mine runs on a Pi Zero W by the way
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