r/pihole

Hey so im looking at getting a pi, to set up a pi hole. But for a pi hole is there a difference between a zero and zero 2? I know the zero 2 has more cores and can run 64-bit. But does a pi hole need more, or can I get by with just 32-bit and 1 core.

I installed my pi hole yesterday and it went largely without issue until today, roughly 24 hours after I turned it on. No one on my network could access the internet beyond google or google products, and I was completely unable to access my network portal through both the IP and myfiosgateway.com, instead getting the error the the server is unreachable. The issue went away after I unplugged and plugged back in the pi hole, but I'm still unable to access my routers portal, which now says connection refused, and unable to ping or ssh to my pi. Any got any clue what could be happening?

I am a long time pi-hole user (10+ years) but I dread using the Amazon website. Clearly they have all kinds of funky stuff going on on their website. My pi-hole blocks most ads and it must be driving them insane and as a consequence my phone gets very hot and my battery drains noticeably, the site slows down and it’s a generally poor experience - like the worst website to use out there by a mile in this day and age.

I don’t know what DNS entries I have that blocks whatever it’s trying to do but I guess it’s bothering me enough now to try to fix it. I have the “standard” blocklists (big.oisd.nl, StevenBlack, hagezi).

I know I could allow an exception or disable temporarily but don’t want to do that. I know I could download the Amazon app and may get different results, but also don’t want to do that. But should my phone be running hot and drain battery just from visiting their site? Big red flag if you ask me. Does this happen to anyone else?

I got everything set up, pi hole is running and Ive added lists. But at the final step I got stuck.

I cant change the dns on my xfinity router to the static ip on the pi hole.

As far as can tell, theres no way to change the xfinity settings. Has anyone found a work around to this?

Hi folks!

I'm not mentally seeing a perfect option for me here, so hoping I can get some inventive ideas I haven't thought of.

I've been using pi-hole for several years now. Setup just how I want it, I've been loving it, and don't really want to lose it.

Recent developments and necessary changes have put me in a situation where I'm having a hard time thinking how I can retain pi-hole with it fitting neatly into my new setup.

My current setup:

Just me unless guests are visiting. Old laptop at home running 24/7, Ubuntu Server on it, with Pi-Hole installed. Same laptop also runs OpenVPN CE, with my phone connected to it 24/7 with kill-switch for remote access/ad-blocking on the go, and securing my connection while out and about. Works great.

What's changing:

I live in the UK, I really don't like the direction of travel and the attack on internet neutrality, and I'm fed up with it, so I'm needing to insert an additional (or replacement) VPN into the mix. I am simultaneously in the process of de-Googling, and this context is important.

I plan to move Google Drive + Gmail to Proton equivalents, and this will already entail using a plan that includes ProtonVPN, so it seems a no-brainer.

My conundrum and thoughts:

I could install site-to-site Proton VPN on my router (Draytek - maybe UniFi router next to match my AP's when update support expires next year) on the WAN side for Proton, which would allow me to keep Pi-Hole both at home and on the go, but I'm very hesitant as it will add even more points of failure, likely introduce issues with banking apps and various other sites, and I'm not sure if I'll have an easy means to bypass VPN for specific sites, switch servers, or easily turn off temporarily at will.

I could go Proton on individual devices, but this then kills pi-hole from the equation. Proton's paid offerings do offer an ad-blocker for day-to-day (presumably DNS-based too), and I could switch VPN ad-hoc if needing remote access (or utilise a different means for remote access)

I'm also aware that doing 24x7 per-device Proton would cause a head-ache for future prospects of i.e. Home Assistant, at home phone backups etc. unless going split tunnel for LAN, which (annoyingly) I believe from reading up, disables the potential of enabling the kill-switch option.

Questions:

Am I missing some obvious way to keep my Pi-Hole integrated into the stack that isn't going to cause huge headaches, doesn't have humongous complexity (beyond what it is already) or entail constantly hopping back and forth between VPNs?

Does anyone know how Proton's ad-blocking offerings compare to Pi-Hole's? I can't imagine it'd be as thorough or customisable, as a heavily "consumer-oriented" offering.

Hi everyone. I've been using Pi-hole for a while and have many lists of domains to block; is there any downside to using so many lists?

just got mine started this morning, seems to be blocking 95% of ads well. I selected cloudflare from the startup options, but now the dashboard is saying I don't have anything upstream. is there a fix for this, or is it not even a problem?

good evening , I am here asking for your help because I am going crazy trying to understand what is happening with my device. So I was using using a simple ubiquiti setup at home , a ucg ultra with an unifi express as access point with pihole , it was perfect , then for some time i had to switch to using the ISP router and againt it was perfect , recently i decided to upgrade the wifi and i replaced the unifi express with an u7 lite ap , I updated the ucg ultra and the ap , and now I am having constant disconnect problems on my galaxy s24 , the device will connect just fine to the wifi but after a couple of seconds of browsing the web the "internet not available" will show up and it will not open any website but after 4-5 seconds it will reconnect just fine and it repeats , 30 seconds of internet working then 4-5 seconds no internet available, the wifi connection doesnt drop , but shows "no internet" , if i check ubiquiti stats it shows 2 different errors " DNS RESPONSE NOT SEEN" and " DNS TIMEOUT" . Now i do not know if it would be more appropriate to ask this in the ubiquiti section or here but I hope you can help me . thank you!

I feel stupid for not being able to understand this, because all the instructions base the info given with an assumed level of knowledge.

I have 2 problems.

First is when I type "> sudo nano -w /etc/dhcpd.conf " It doesn't show me the "example" that all the instructions get when they show theirs. The last line I get is "Slaac private" and the example is supposed to be right after that, but it's not.

The 2nd problem is, I don't understand how I'm supposed to choose a static ip. This is where the assumed info comes in, the instructions I find just say "pick one between your two ranges" and I have no clue what that means. I know my IP address, I know a bunch of my info. I admitedly can't get into my wifi gateway right now because the log in info I have isn't working and it's gonna be a whole thing where I need to reset my router in order to change it and I'd REALLY prefer not to do that if I don't have to.

So, as I am at the stage where I'm supposed to create a static ip, how do I do that given what I have?

List of current blocklists

I am relatively new to the whole home server/home lab genre. I have recently found out about Pi-hole. I got it all set up, and my current blocklists are as shown in the photo. Are there some of these that you guys wouldn’t recommend, as well as some that you guys would highly recommend?

Thanks!

Can I configure my Raspberry Pi, which I use only for Pi-hole, to automatically run sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y and sudo pihole -up for updates without me having to do anything manually?

Every day I get out of work and many sites just don't work for like the first 30 mins. (unreachable site) Most of the time I Fidel with things and it will eventually start working. When I say fiddle I mean I literally do the most primitive things. For example yesterday I manually pointed my pc towards the rasp pi's IP and that seemed to fix it. So today when I got on and the same thing happened my natural instinct was to check if the change I made had reverted somehow. It had not. I don't even know why its working now and I can access reddit again. All I did was change the dns to some bs rq then change it back. Other thing that's worth noting is that during this I can access my pi hole dash via the web from my phone. However attempting to access the pi from the pc using putty to ssh in yields a fatal error "network unreachable" (I think that's what it said, sorry I know that's important) However now that my internet is working on my pc as I was typing this I used putty to access my PI nice and easy first try no errors.

In my dashboard the error log just has that one common no ntp replies error which I tried to fix in the past unsuccessfully, however as it did not seem to effect anything I ignored it.

Running windows 11 on the main pc. The pi runs on a zero 2w on the official rasp pi distro.