docs VS Pi-hole

It's a DNS proxy, like pi-hole, but it seems a lot more powerful than Pi-hole that is basically just a configured dnsmasq server to be user-friendly.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/

I highly recommend the documentation or this video (which also has a blog) that I followed.

Protip: Setup a DNS Sinkhole on your network and you can easily block Vizio and other devices from calling home to update. https://docs.pi-hole.net/

version: "3" # More info at https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/ and https://docs.pi-hole.net/ networks: dns_net: driver: bridge ipam: config: - subnet: 10.2.0.0/24 services: pihole: depends_on: [unbound] container_name: pihole image: pihole/pihole:latest hostname: pihole networks: dns_net: ipv4_address: 10.2.0.100 ports: - "5335:53/tcp" - "5335:53/udp" - "7000:80/tcp" environment: TZ: ${TZ} WEBPASSWORD: ${PWD} FTLCONF_LOCAL_IPV4: ${HOST_IP} # Set to server's LAN IP, used by web block modes. PIHOLE_DNS_: 10.2.0.200 # Upstream DNS server(s) for Pi-hole to forward queries to, separated by a semicolon DNSMASQ_LISTENING: all # "Listen on all interfaces, permit all origins" # Volumes store your data between container upgrades volumes: - /var/lib/docker/volumes/pihole/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole - /var/lib/docker/volumes/pihole/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d healthcheck: disable: true restart: unless-stopped unbound: # https://github.com/MatthewVance/unbound-docker container_name: unbound image: mvance/unbound:latest hostname: unbound networks: dns_net: ipv4_address: 10.2.0.200 ports: - "${HOST_IP}:53:53/udp" - "${HOST_IP}:53:53/tcp" healthcheck: disable: true restart: unless-stopped

Absolutely. Check out the Pi-Hole documentation here: https://docs.pi-hole.net/

See https://docs.pi-hole.net/

Si te preguntas, ¿por qué no usar Adguard o Pihole? 🤔

This is an overreaction, almost to the point of absurdity.

Risks inherent to pipe installers are well understood by many. Using your logic, we should abandon Homebrew [1] (>38k stars on GitHub), PiHole [2] (>46k stars on GitHub), Chef [3], RVM [4], and countless other open source projects that use one-step automated installers (by piping to bash).

A more reasonable response would be to coordinate with the developers to update the docs to provide alternative installation methods, rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

[1] https://brew.sh/

[2] https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

[3] https://docs.chef.io/chef_install_script/#run-the-install-sc...

[4] https://rvm.io/rvm/install

Pi-hole to block ads and tracking for my less technically savvy relatives

https://pi-hole.net/

I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS.

Note: This isn't a shill for NextDNS; I love these kinds of projects and think they absolutely should exist, but NextDNS just happens to be one of those dead-simple SaaS tools that is an insanely good value.

0 - https://pi-hole.net/

1 - https://nextdns.io

It definitely IS an option, but at the network level.

https://pi-hole.net/

It runs on damn near everything, and is a DNS level adblocker for the whole network.

I recently switched to Wipr [0]. It’s dead simple to use, and will auto update its filter lists in the background.

Adguard [1] is a decent free option.

I also use a Pi-hole [2] on my network.

[0] https://kaylees.site/wipr.html

[1] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-safari/overview.html

[2] https://pi-hole.net/

Are you trying to build a DNS proxy (similar to Pi-hole) that intercepts DNS requests and checks for the ones that look harmful? If so, I would suggest trying to separately build a DNS client and a DNS server, before trying to integrate them together. Start with Beej's Guide to Network Programming if you need to learn the basics of sockets, and then take a look at the documents that define the DNS protocol itself (RFC1034 and RFC1035).

Setup a pi-hole.

It's definitely not as simple as installing an app on your phone, but I run a Pi-hole on my home network, and it does block ads in many games.