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Hello everyone. I'm kind of in an uncomfortable situation. I need some dedicated help in getting Home Assistant, Unraid, and PiHole up and running. read on for more details. I wanted to have a Home Assistant setup for my workshop. I didn’t know it at the time, but that’s what I needed. Through a series of conversations (and roughly $700 later) I had enough equipment to set up an Unraid server, and have two tablet computers to run my home assistant (inside unraid) and two dashboards. They're just sitting in my home office doing nothing. The person who recommended all this equipment to me was willing to help me get everything up and running, but he had a personal emergency and now isn't able to help me complete the setup. I'm super-duper green when it comes to this kind of stuff... so much so that I'm finding it hard to follow tutorials, as they seem to require a base level of understanding I don't have. I'm fairly technical, but most of my computer knowledge revolves around tinkering in the files system. I just don't have the grid for networking and custom computing. This leaves me with a server that I somehow managed to get up and running properly (I think) and a home assistant VM that, while technically might also be installed correctly, I have no idea how to integrate all my devices (cameras, lights, air monitors, outlets, 3d printer). I was also trying to get Pi-Hole up and running as a VM as well tonight, but literally 1 minute into the video I was already lost. So the good news: Most of this is ready to go, I just need help in figuring out...... how to use it, I think. Pi-Hole is the only thing that hasn't been started yet. Mods: If this is the wrong place to post this, my sincerest apologies. I'd love a tip on where to go to get assistance if the post has to come down.

I've been using Pi-Hole with recursive dns While randomly using Pi-Hole on my PC running Windows as a Client discord stopped responding and i cannot connect to calls at all While i searched on google the only thing i could find is my RTC not in sync How do you sync the time? Is there any other solutions???

I've got an idea to make my home a bit smarter and wanted to be able to access my home printer from school so I don't have to think about printing resources required by my teachers every time I get home. So I found an unused raspberry pi, set it up, bought public IP from my ISP and got to work. Everything worked fine until I've got stuck and cannot find a solution to the last step required to mark this as done. Every time I set up a port forwarding to my raspberry. Internet stop working. Connections that were made before I set it up still work, but I can't do any new ones (like Discord call is still working or YouTube video is still able to load itself). This behaviour ends only if I change DNS from my Pi-hole and change it to something else like Cloudflare. I first thought that this might be because Pi-hole might use the same port for its services but after I changed the port of the print server a few times I've proven myself wrong. I also tried to set up Pi-hole as a DNS through each device connected, that didn't help either. I should probably mention that if I have my DNS forwarding to pi-hole, pi-hole sees it and responds with "OK, sent to 1.1.1.1"- message that is expected so Pi-hole should not be a problem. Router model, if helpfull: Phicomm KE 2P Sorry if there are some problems with understanding my text. I am not a native speaker.

Okay so I've installed pi-hole on my pi, and I am on my router's dns page but what should I put there, I've searched on the LTT guide and official guide as well. No where, it states what to put in the router. Only place I saw the actuall dns ip, was on the LTT video, but idk if I should but that same ip in mine. I'm new to this, please help. Thanks Also btw, http://pi.hole/admin doesn't work, but puttin in the ip works

My main internet wire comes to my router, which spreads it out to pi (which I use as a NAS) and other devices. And I want to install pi hole on the pi, so it can block ads on my entire home network. So, will I need to put that main wire in the pi, or continue using it as usual? But pi only has one lan port, how will I bring the internet to my router?' Thanks.

Hi Everyone, Long time lurker, 1st time poster. Just for chuckles I rolled-up a simple install script to install Pi-hole on Windows 10 subsystem for Linux (WSL) No containers, virtualization, or even physical Raspberry Pi required, just run the script and hit a couple of check-boxes on the scheduled task to run Pi-hole at boot time. You could run this successfully on pretty much any Windows 10 PC, including 10-15yr old CPUs without virtualization features, or even Hyper-V Server 2019 if you want a free-as-in-beer solution. The way less insane way to a Pi-hole is to just deploy a standalone Linux VM/Container but that's been done to death. This solution lets you have Pi-hole on the go, just a few Linux binaries running alongside Windows on your laptop, for example. https://github.com/DesktopECHO/Pi-Hole-for-WSL1 Cheers, D.

Hi, sorry if this have been asked before. I only have small knowledge when it comes to networking, and I tried searching google and all other forums regarding the dns setting between lan and wan and cant get a layman's term answer if there are any. I set up pi-hole on one of my old computer and I want it to be the dns resolver for my network, I dont know where to put the DNS. I currently have a 3rd party router tplink ac1750 with openwrt, there are multiple area where you can add your own custom DNS and 2 of them are LAN and wan respectively. I also set my isp router to bridge mode so that I can manage everything through the 3rd party router. A problem I'm having is if I put the DNS in the LAN setting, it doesnt block majority of the ads I have on the adlist, if I set it in WAN, it works properly, i'm worried that if I left it in WAN, it would have a negative impact on my network in the future thank you for any help.

I had tried Brave, Edge, Safari and Chrome all said "10.0.10.64/admin refused to connect." And It's on CentOS 8 which is supported.

I picked up one of these little Android TV boxes from Amazon to run Linux Deploy and Pi-hole, with the hope that later on proper/native/Debian Linux may be a possibility now that it's supported in Kernel 6.0. Found the box severely crapped-up with nasty-looking malware and documented the adventure on Reddit. If you have the device pictured below and would like to volunteer to help with some malware research, drop me a line and I'll walk you through a Pi-hole install and the steps to find out if your Android box is affected. TL;DR: - Verify root switch is 'enabled' - Install the Pi-hole for Android APK on your device, point DNS1 and DNS2 towards 127.0.0.1 - SSH to the Pi-hole instance, use iptables to intercept all DNS traffic and send it to Pi-hole iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to 127.0.0.1 iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to 127.0.0.1 - Disable IPv6: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/accept_ra echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6 Then, go to Query Log in the Pi-hole web interface and let's see what kind of nastiness is going on! Cheers, D.

Hello. I recently made a couple changes to my home network and since then, I've been having weird behavior in online games. I have regular ping and no issues for several minutes but then suffer from momentary disconnects and ping spikes for 10-15 seconds before going back to normal. This is currently happening on my desktop PC. So far this has happened to me in League of Legends and Apex legends. The changes I made to my network is that I installed a raspberry pi with an ethernet cable and set it up as a DNS with Pi-Hole however I had to select the DNS address manually on each device since my ISP router does not allow me to change the DNS network wide. The other change I made is that I hooked up a 5 port network switch for my xbox and nintendo switch, since I ran out of ethernet ports when I hooked up my raspi. So right now my home network looks something like this: ISP Router (Huawei HG8145V5) --Network Switch ---Xbox Series S ---Nintendo Switch --Raspberry pi --Desktop PC 1 --Desktop PC 2 I had to disable IPV6 on both desktop PCs since it was causing my raspberry pi DNS to be bypassed since they were defaulting to using the IPV6 DNS from my ISP since they have locked me out from changing those settings on my router configuration. I have several devices connected via WiFi but the same issues still happen even with most of them disconnected so I don't think that's the issue.} Speed test does not show any reduction in latency or speed since I made those changes. According to my research, pi-hole should not be the source of the issue since the DNS is only used once when establishing the connection to the game servers so I'm kinda lost. Any help is appreciated. My system Specs: Windows 10 Pro 19045 64 Bit B660 GAMING X AX DDR4 (BIOS F21) Intel i5-12600KF 32 GB 3200 MHz Nvidia RTX 3060 Cooler Master MasterWatt 650W

So every few weeks the network gets so slow, like from 40Mbps Download to 2-3Mbps Download and Upload is usually the same as it has been maybe a about 1 Mbps slower and High ping an Jitter. We switched the DSL cable and even the router but the issue keeps happenning.. After restart the issue goes away for a few days or week but it returns.. I am trying to narrow the issue as much as possible its a bit hard to diagnose.. Also good to say that through out the week only the older computer serving as nas is active the two are powered off and only wifi is being used pretty much. My potentional issues: The DSL cable is run right next to power cable - It has been like this for a few years and never has been an problem until a year back Im running an pihole (meaning all DNS trafic goes through that) on a bit older computer (serving also as NAS) but its ethernet does have 1Gbps and it has not been throtteling in any way i belive. ISP - The ISP has been here two times, they said nothign was wrong changes the cable an modified an config on their side.. Helped a bit.. Network layout: The router has only one ethernet connector in use. The cable goes through the house to room with an 2Gbps capeable switch from there to three computer. The Wifi is serving around 5-6 clients.. PS: When the speed are low the admin ui is still saying that it detects the correct speeds on the DSL cable.

I'd message on the original forum but nobody reply for 2 days. So I'm going to paste it here: Need help on setting this up on a raspbian. I'd very newb when comes to linux/raspbian so i think I did some mistake when installing the pi hole. I'd installed raspbian and OMV on my raspi 4. Then i tried to install pi hole into the same machine using the command curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash But after installation I am unable the pi-hole via ssh (http://192.168.1.10/admin ) It showed ??? OMV page with the following: Software Failure. Press left mouse button to continue. The requested page was not found I think i'd messed up smth, likely there's a conflict btw OMV and pi-hole? But I am not sure, can anyone explain?

So I decided to upgrade from Google Wifi(Router) to pfSense for better understanding of my network and also to muck around. *I am nowhere near great with networking so I need some help. Before i installed pfSense i had Pi-Hole running on a Pi3. It was working flawlessly and now it seems that all the dns request/lookups are being blocked, as well as updating the block lists. First off I messed around with my Lan interface in PF to see if i could find the issue with no avail. Then I flashed the Pi3 and tried to do a fresh install, well it looks like PF is also blocking that install from GITHUB most likely. I then tried to use PFblocker since everyone else says that it is basically the same. It seems that that is also being blocked. So i need some help ha! I am not sure where to begin. Let me know of any files or info you need for me to help.

hey everybody, I want to install pi-hole but if i do it on one pc does every other pc in my house have pi-hole to or do i have to install it on all of my other pcs?

Sup LTT! So I created a short video tutorial (9 minutes in runtime) covering the installation of Pi-hole in the Windows operating systems via Hyper-V & using Debian Linux. This provides network wide ad-blocking as well enhanced security via DNS redirection, completely for free. You gotta keep in mind this works across your entire network; so phones, tablets, gaming consoles, smart televisions, etc. all benefit from this. It also has a pretty sweet web based GUI that you can use for blacklisting domains, looking up queries, checking on your clients, etc. Can make network management much easier depending on what type of setup you might be using. I tried to be as straight forward as possible & also put study aids on the screen throughout the process so that you don't have to try to see the tiny text I'm typing in as it's happening. This is not a process you should fear & is extremely easy to do, it delights me to be able to show off the ease of install inside nine minutes. Though I looked up the community guidelines and they specifically say I can't post this video I've made without; "2 - The video is only to complement your complete, written post on the site. You cannot simply post a video." So I'll include a bit of a write up as well to appease the mod gods! (or just Luke, I'm doing this to appease Luke) Now my default forum of choice on the net has been ArsTechnica for the last 18 years, so yes, you're going to see this posted over there too. I'm trying to share the love. Anyways back on topic, basically what we're doing here is opening up a hyper-v environment so you can run a copy of linux on top of your windows operation system. Why? So we can install Pi-hole which blocks over 100,000 ad-serving domains through a DNS redirect on your network. This has the included benefits of improving your network performance (since ads are blocked before they are downloaded altogether) & reducing your data usage if you happen to be on a bandwidth cap. To start you'll need an operating system capable of Hyper-V. Wikipedia has a beautiful list of all the supported operating systems, so check if yours is on there. If so you can do this! If you can have it but don't have it installed, you'll need to go into your Control Panel, then to Add/Remove Programs. In modern windows versions this is called Programs and Features. From there, inside the new window that pops up, on the left side will be an option to "Turn Windows Features On or Off", this is where you need to go to install Hyper-V. Simply check the box next to it in the new window that pops up & follow the install prompts. Next on our journey you'll need the newest version of the Debian Linux distro. (make sure to download the appropriate version for the machine you're running on, for example, a modern computer will require the amd64 iso) Why do we need this? Because Pi-hole was originally meant to be booted on top a Raspberry-Pi and it's grown from there. Here we don't require a Raspberry-Pi, anything that requires money, or even physical objects beyond what we already own. So now that we have Hyper-V installed & a fresh copy of Debian we begin. As shown in the video, you'll need to create a virtual switch first. This is very simple, just click the switch manager on the right & create a new one. Make sure to select your adapter that is currently supplying your internet connection. With that done we can simply create a new virtual machine, you really do not need beef settings to make this happen. It can be done on 1GB of ram & a single processor though like anything, it will benefit the more you open it up. In the video I gave the virtual machine 4GB of ram & 10GB of hard drive space, THIS WAS PLENTY. Make sure to select the Debian iso to be inside your virtual dvd drive when the machine is turned on. It's just like any other operating system install just much easier & faster. Once this is done we need to install Curl so that we can then install Pi-hole, we also need to make sure the machine is now on a static IP so that the other devices on the network always know where their DNS server is. I've actually put this on the screen in the video but if you're interested in reading it, the basic command process to this is: su root apt-get install curl nano /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.10.95 (your pi-hole static ip) netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.10.1 (your gateway) reboot su root curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash pihole -a -p newpassword set router manual DNS settings primary = 192.168.10.95 (your pi-hole static ip) secondary = 8.8.8.8 (emergency google backup) apply & push router changes across network connect to 192.168.10.95/admin (use pi-hole ip) As discussed in the video you're going to want to comment out the last two lines of "/etc/network/interfaces" before writing in your new static address. You're also going to want to select a static address that is outside of your DHCP lease range so that it doesn't accidentally get leased to another device if your Hyper-V happens to go down. Next as seen in the instructions above, we need to go into your actual router & change your DNS settings to point to the new Pi-hole installation. This will be your Primary DNS for your Secondary DNS we're going to use Google's primary server. Why? This is for emergency backup! If your hyper-v goes offline, you forget about it, or say, the machine it's running on is shut off altogether then your network will default to google instead of just going offline. Unfortunately there won't be any ad-blocking going on at that point but that's far better then everybody on your network being upset that there's no internet access. After this all we have to do is connect to the Pi-hole web interface via any browser. Just point your address bar at the static IP your Pi-hole is running on, drop a /admin after it & login. You don't really need to do this, there's not many reasons to come over and manage the software. Mainly it's where you can investigate all the clients on your network, see problem areas, blacklist them, or even whitelist domains if you need to. You can see device temps here, charts, graphs, hella logs, you name it. It's a very simple but powerful interface that works extremely well. At the end of the video, after recording live, you can see it's running on only 700mb of memory. It really takes absolutely nothing to run Pi-hole an it has massive benefits for everything inside your network. That's why I wanted to share it with everybody! Anyways if you have any questions feel free to post though I am not associated with the project at all. I've posted this same video on their subreddit though if you happen to want to drop an upboat for me. (it would be appreciated!) I'm sure they would be much more qualified at answering in-depth technical questions then myself, though I will try my best to help out where I can. If still interested you can view the video tutorial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgUZ9fccBCU Much love, 'Gobby PS: Here you go Luke, that'll keep things interesting.

So I've just started getting into Linux and the most interesting thing I've found for a home server so far(besides Plex) is Pi-Hole but whenever I go to install it the 2nd install page just pops up and then goes away without anything happening... I've had enough issues with Ubuntu already(VPN software not installing correctly, server dashboard for management spitting out errors left and right). I'm having a very tough time with Linux right now, if anyone knows how to fix this issue I would be beyond greatful root@viper-Linux:~# curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash stty: 'standard input': Inappropriate ioctl for device [✓] Root user check .;;,. .ccccc:,. :cccclll:. ..,, :ccccclll. ;ooodc 'ccll:;ll .oooodc .;cll.;;looo:. .. ','. .',,,,,,'. .',,,,,,,,,,. .',,,,,,,,,,,,.... ....''',,,,,,,'....... ......... .... ......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ......... .... ......... ........,,,,,,,'...... ....',,,,,,,,,,,,. .',,,,,,,,,'. .',,,,,,'. ..'''. Existing PHP installation detected : PHP version 7.3.7-2+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 [✓] Disk space check [✓] Update local cache of available packages [✓] Checking apt-get for upgraded packages... up to date! Installer Dependency checks... [✓] Checking for apt-utils [✓] Checking for dialog [✓] Checking for debconf [✓] Checking for dhcpcd5 [✓] Checking for git [✓] Checking for iproute2 [✓] Checking for whiptail Using interface: enp2s0 Using Cloudflare Static IP already configured Found IPv6 GUA address, using it for blocking IPv6 ads IPv4 address: 10.0.0.192/24 IPv6 address: 2601:402:680:34c8:e877:268:ff85:605a Web Interface On Web Server On Logging On. [✓] Check for existing repository in /etc/.pihole Update repo in /etc/.pihole... [✓] Update repo in /etc/.pihole [✓] Check for existing repository in /var/www/html/admin [✓] Update repo in /var/www/html/admin Main Dependency checks... [✓] Checking for cron [✓] Checking for curl [✓] Checking for dnsutils [✓] Checking for iputils-ping [✓] Checking for lsof Checking for netcat (will be installed) [✓] Checking for psmisc [✓] Checking for sudo [✓] Checking for unzip [✓] Checking for wget Checking for idn2 (will be installed) Checking for sqlite3 (will be installed) [✓] Checking for libcap2-bin [✓] Checking for dns-root-data Checking for resolvconf (will be installed) [✓] Checking for libcap2 Checking for lighttpd (will be installed) [✓] Checking for php7.3-common Checking for php7.3-cgi (will be installed) Checking for php7.3-sqlite3 (will be installed) (2nd install screen comes up and goes away immediately) root@viper-Linux:~#

Good Afternoon, I plan on installing Pi-Hole on a raspberry pi and hooking it up to my router as the default DNS so it blocks ads on all sites and devices. All of the instructions say to connect it to your router via Ethernet however my router only has 2 Ethernet ports and both are being used. Would it be possible to connect the Pi to my router via wifi instead? I plan on getting the Pi-4 and don't want to lose an Ethernet port?

So Im running 2 VMs on hyper-v 1. Pi-hole on debian 2. steamcache on ubuntu. But how can I use both, when there are 2 dns? My pihole has 192.168.50.200 steamcache has 192.168.50.237 Ive read something about upstream. Ive set the upstream on the steamcache to use 192.168.50.200 but it doesnt seem to do the trick. Im not so sure if the steamcache server is working how it should. How can i check that ? The install i used on steamcache sudo docker run \ --restart unless-stopped -d \ --name steam-cache \ -v /home/steamcache/cache/steam/data:/data/cache \ -v /home/steamcache/cache/steam/logs:/data/logs \ -p 192.168.50.237:80:80 \ steamcache/generic:latest sudo docker run \ --restart unless-stopped -d \ --name steamcache-dns \ - p 192.168.50.237:53:53/udp \ -e UPSTREAM_DNS=192.168.50.200 \ -e STEAMCACHE_IP=[Your Local IP Here] \ lancachenet/generic:latest-dns:latest Trying to download something :

Well as the title says im new here and dont know where to post this multi cat question, So i will start off by saying that i am looking for an alternative router os that will run on debian alongside my pi-hole setup on the same system. I will be building a small arm based itx based pc with a quad core cpu and 4gb of memory asuming i can get the hardware that is. This is what im going to try getting : https://www.ebay.com/p/116326752 Any ideas on what i should do? Im currently running my pi-hole setup with debian on a socket 775 pc with 4gb of ddr2 and it runs flawlessly. Only reason why i want to do this is because my router keeps messing up with dhcp disabled and finding myself having to reset it at times. Also i wanted a much more power effecient setup incase of power cuts also having a dual wifi setup along with lan support via internal and exturnal nicks coupled with a HP procurve switch just sounds fesable.

Hi, I have a pi hole working as the DNS server for my network, forcing all traffic to use it as the main DNS server. But I also want to set up an openvpn client profile on my router. I already have an openvpn server set up on one of my vps's. If I do this will the traffic coming through my network still have ads blocked? Or will I need to configure my vps with the vpn on it to use a custom DNS server? Thanks! Edit: Router is a newer ASUS router

Hi, I want to configure a network wide ad block service using Pi-Hole..... But My internet only works with the DNS provided by the ISP, if I change it, the internet stops. Is there a way to keep both the DNS of the ISP and Pi-Hole's DNS in my router?

Since my ISP sent me a router with the UI for portforwarding and you can set it up, it doesn't support it and I have to buy a new router to be able to do it. So I thought, why not try something new and learn something now and get a new toy at the same time. I want to try and setup a Raspberry Pi with PfSense. I could also use an old computer, but it's too big and power hungry and I would like a new toy too. So a Raspberry PI with a USB adapter it is! I learnt that you can also use them for Pi-Hole and I was wondering, since I know that PfSence isn't supported in Docker. Is it possible to set this up one Raspberry Pi with both PfSence and Pi-Hole or if I have to buy two of them?

Budget (including currency): ≤50$ Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Pi-Hole Other details: I saw some videos but still i'm unsure with what model of Raspberry Pi should I buy. Any help would be great.

I have tried every thing i can think of. I have tried cent os 7 and fedora 32. I know the service that should be running it is working but it doesn't wanna FUDGING WORK. It was on a switch that i have had problems with in the past so i took it off and hooked it up to the isp router/modem combo along with the device thats going to be acessing it and that didnt fix it. Im not sure if theres a setting in the router that would be stopping this or what but i am completly floored and have no idea what i can try any more. I am running this on an old laptop. NOT A RASP PI.

Hi guys, I want to convert my old PC into a home server but I need some help picking an OS. I've heard that Ubuntu Server, Debian, Fedora, CentOS and OpenSUSE are some of the best but I need help picking the right one for my needs as I'm still fairly new to the Linux scene. The server will function as: SAMBA file server Plex Media Server Pi-Hole - Sorry Linus. It's the advertisers' fault, not the content creators'. I'll buy a LTT hoodie and some t-shirts. (Please make women's LTT underwear too!) I may also add other services in the future if I need them. The OS needs to be stable and, most importantly, secure. It also needs to be lightweight because it'll initially be running on fairly old hardware (see below). I would like to use a Linux-based OS so I don't need to run Pi-Hole or Plex in a VM/jail. (I know FreeNAS has a Plex plugin but it can only run Pi-Hole in a Linux VM, adding overhead.) It would also be nice to have long term support or a rolling release so I don't need to fully upgrade the OS every few months. I've tried Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS on a VBox VM purely just to play around with it and test the functionality of the services I'll be running. I don't mind using CLI/SSH for most things but I would prefer a desktop environment or a web GUI for tasks that either can't be done over SSH or would be easier in a GUI, (e.g. network config, managing storage, etc.) so that kind of rules out the LTS version of Ubuntu Server unless anyone knows how to install XFCE on it. Initial hardware (subject to future upgrades): CPU: i5-650 3.2GHz (3.4GHz boost) Clarkdale Mobo: MSI 2A9C (MS-7613 from HP Pavilion 6000 series) RAM: 16GB DDR3 Storage: TBC - I'm thinking boot from USB and use IronWolves in RAIDZ for storage PSU: CiT 500W 80+ (I know it's cheap crap but it'll do for now till I get better hardware) Thanks in advance for any advice. Leah