I finally found out that the culprit was pi-hole causing my siri and image playground not to work by disabling pi-hole for 5 minutes. Does anyone here know what settings or changes I need to make to get these features to work?
and as for what lists I am using. They are HaGeZI Multi Pro and HaGeZI TIF.
I'm specifically talking about the wi-fi/network settings such as the following. I'm not sure what they should be set to in order to get the most out of pi-hole.
1.) Private Wi-Fi Address (OFF/FIXED/ROTATING)
2.) Limit IP Address Tracking (ON/OFF)
Hi all I've set up pihole trough tail scale since for my home server to keep it easier I just have it enabled 24/7 for all my family's devices. Everything was fine and it hardly used any battery % on the mobile devices but since I got pihole my partners phone will hardly make it trough half the day and battery usage shows yesterday tailscale drained 80%. Her iPhone has had a ridiculous amount of queries she's at 60k and the rest of the devices are at around 10 -15k queries. Is there a way to stop it sending so many requests? Very new to this
I built a single-file HTML and JavaScript frontend to manage my two Pi-hole instances from one interface and keep their settings in sync.
My original version worked for about four years, until the Pi-hole v6 update broke it last year. A couple of weeks ago, I finally had time to update it to work with v6.
The interface is currently in Danish, but I’m planning to add an English translation in a future version.
It requires a simple nginx reverse proxy to forward requests to both Pi-hole APIs and avoid CORS issues.
Sharing it here in case anyone else running two Pi-hole instances finds it useful!
Hello Everyone,
I am running a PI-Hole on my PI 4 8GB RaspiOS Lite with the following block lists:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/pro.plus.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/adblock/tif.txt
https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/
Are these enough to protect my privacy or just I add a few more? IF that is the case, which one would you suggest to me?
Thank you in advance.
I’ve been running Pihole for years on RPis, but lately my two current RPis (3B and Zero2w) will not stay running. I don’t know if it’s Trixie, or the SD cards, or the power supplies, or the hardware, but I’m spending a ridiculous amount of time keeping them running, and of course having both of them fail simultaneously brings the network to a halt. I WFH, so really just need it to work. I played around with virtualized/containerized solutions on my spare Mac Mini, but can’t come up with a reliable solution, and I don’t want to put any more time into it. New RPis are very expensive, and I want to get away from being a SA.
Any web based alternatives to Pihole, ideally something somewhat configurable? Currently using Quad9 DNS, which gives me a little bit of protection.
Pi-hole does 90% of the heavy lifting, so just want to block YouTube ads really (and disable cookie notices if possible) on top of this. But installing wBlock really slows the browser down as its just doing a load of work thats already done by Pi-hole... so what are peoples recommendations for a combination Adblocker that leaves Safari at full speed but only does the bits Pi-hole doesn't?
Some devices have their own dns .
Today I worked with ChatGPT/Codex to consolidate my Pi-hole blocklists and compare them with what was actually getting through on my network.
I run two Pi-hole containers on separate Synology NAS devices. I host the combined blocklist as a TXT file on Synology Web Station, where both Pi-holes can retrieve it through its web address. That gives me one master file to review and maintain.
I combined downloaded copies of:
The feeds used different formats, so I normalized them, removed duplicate entries, and preserved the distinction between exact domains and rules covering subdomains.
I also created a Python script to repeat the process when the original sources change. It downloads the feeds, saves source snapshots and checksums, applies my custom entries and service exclusions, and reports additions and removals compared with the previous build. It produces a candidate list and an audit report for review before I upload the replacement TXT to Web Station.
Then, using ChatGPT, I analyzed my Pi-hole query database: roughly 1.99 million queries, spanning August 29 through October 3, 2026. We extracted 8,695 unique domains that had at least one allowed query.
From those, I classified 870 exact hostnames as advertising, ad measurement, or behavioral tracking. 699 were already covered; 171 added coverage. I also retained my earlier custom entries and reviewed domains shown in screenshots from an online ad-blocking test.
My biggest requirement: don’t break Plex, Roon, or WeChat. I excluded their service-domain families and preserved feature-flag services such as Statsig. The comparison caught six inherited rules that conflicted with those protections.
The final merged file contains 458,293 rules. I also have the deduplicated allowed-domain list and a CSV showing query counts and classification reasons.
There are limits: historical allowed queries don’t prove a domain is still getting through today. Classification was based on service families and endpoint roles, rather than independently investigating every hostname. The YouTube feed also deserves caution because blocking video-delivery hosts can affect playback.
The workflow now is: download sources → build and compare → review changes → upload to Web Station → update Gravity on both Pi-holes.
Anyone else maintaining a self-hosted master list this way? How do you review source changes and catch false positives before deploying them?
I recently rebuilt pihole on a Debian VM on Hyper-V and the webserver isn't in a usable state. Has anybody else ran into this situation??
The debug token
I can't find a blocklist that blocks anonymous viewers or social media scraping sites.
Example: picuki, inflact, inviziogram, anonyIG, boostbluence, save-free, instapv dumpor, peekviewer, etc...
Could you help me?
Hey everyone, needing a little advise/help. Ive deployed pihole running on a pi3 hardwired into router. After about 3 weeks the network will start having issues and every device on network cannot connect to internet. This is about the 3rd time this has happened. I have tried new sd cards, Ive tried using a secondary pi as backup.
When I remove the pi from the router dns rerouting the network performs normally.
The past 2 times, reinstalling pi os and pihole have resolved the issue temporarily but it crashes again in 3ish weeks.
Im at wits end!
I recently upgraded most of my ubuntu server instances to 26.04.1 and found on one of my instances that had both pihole and dnscrypt-proxy running, after the upgrade the override.conf file was purged. This meant dnscrypt-proxy took 53 causing FTL to fail to start. It was a quick fix but not something I expected to see. Just a heads up for others out there holding off.
I have a pihole setup running on a mini pc. It does not run on a UPS or battery backup. If my power goes out the mini pc shuts off and someone has to go turn it back on. How bad is it if I keep this option in my Asus router turned on?
If Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS is set to Yes in the router even if the pihole goes down the internet on all the devices keeps working until it comes up and pihole takes over. The question is how many things are actually resolving to the router's IP rather than the pihole's set DNS when the pihole is up and running?
Hi all - my Samsung tv had been working fine with pihole, until recently. I have my hagezi Samsung native blocklist, pihole configure as my dns, manually entered my pihole dns ip on my tv. Again, been working fine, until recently. I started noticing ads on the tv and decided to check the logs to see if there was anything that wasn’t being blocked, and to my surprise, it seems the blocklist isn’t working. No Samsung.com or similar I’m the logs at all, so it seems the tv is somehow bypassing the pihole? Which I’m not sure how that’s possible. I’m sure I’m missing something, I’m not super technical but know just enough to be dangerous, a little. Happy to share any other details I’ve missed.
I’d like to fix this obviously but don’t even know what to look at, or
where to begin troubleshooting. Has anyone seen anything like this? Or maybe you know where to look? If he forever grateful. Thanks so much!
My (Dell) work laptop is making hundreds of these queries a day, sometimes hundreds an hour, pointing at every device on my network through ipv4 and 6. It's the only device on my network making PTR queries. Anyone think there's harm in just blocking it from doing this? My company doesn't need to know this information as far as I'm concerned
Gotta say, as a new Pihole user, looking through query logs has been full of weird surprises
After updating the pihole FTL I stopped being able to see the query log from the admin page. I ran pihole debug which showed that query logging was disabled for some reason, which I enabled it from the privacy section. qQueries started being shown in /var/log/pihole/pihole.log but not in the admin page. I can see things being blocked in the graphs and statistics section, but my log is completely empty. Any fixes I can possibly try?