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• 🏗️ Building my home server P5: Network-wide ad blocking with Pi-hole
  2 projects | dev.to | 16 Mar 2026

  Since all my other services run in Docker containers, Pi-hole was no exception. I followed the official Docker Pi-hole documentation to set things up. Here's what the container deployment looks like:

• Pi-hole setup(docker) for ad blocking
  2 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2025
• Stuff a Pi-hole in your router because your browser is about to betray you
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2025

  My setup is on a nanopi running FriendlyWRT/OpenWRT with Docker installed. PiHole is easy to run from docker - have a look at https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/

• Running Nextcloud on TrueNAS behind Nginx Reverse Proxy
  4 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2024

  Pi-hole (Docker Tag 2024.07.0 Pi-hole v5.18.3 FTL v5.25.2 Web Interface v5.21) configuration

• Problem - Pi-Hole not getting many DNS requests
  2 projects | /r/pihole | 10 Jul 2023

  Yesterday I deployed the official pi hole docker container on my raspberry pi 3 and set a custom DNS address on my phone addressing to the pi.

• Help with container seeing gateway as the return address
  1 project | /r/docker | 17 May 2023

  #pihole   pihole:     container_name: pihole     image: pihole/pihole:latest     ports:       - target: 53         published: 53         protocol: tcp         mode: host       - target: 53         published: 53         protocol: udp         mode: host       - "67:67/udp"       - "8070:80/tcp"       - "8073:443/tcp"     environment:       TZ: 'America/Indianapolis'       WEBPASSWORD: #'TEMP_PASSWORD' #'set a secure password here or it will be random'       WEBPASSWORD_FILE: '/etc/pihole/adminpw.txt'     # Volumes store your data between container upgrades     volumes:       - '~/pihole/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole'       - '~/pihole/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d'     #   https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities     cap_add:       - NET_ADMIN # Recommended but not required (DHCP needs NET_ADMIN)     #network_mode: host     restart: unless-stopped     #UPTIME KUMA   uptime_kuma:     image: louislam/uptime-kuma:1     container_name: uptime-kuma     volumes:      - uptime-kuma:/app/data     ports:      - 8060:3001     restart: always

• No internet access for containers co-hosted with pihole
  6 projects | /r/docker | 13 May 2023

  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

• Synology/MACVLAN/BRIDGE help
  2 projects | /r/synology | 9 May 2023

  services: pihole: container_name: pihole image: pihole/pihole:latest hostname: pihole # Container hostname (optional) domainname: mynetwork.local # Container domain (optional) mac_address: f7:55:63:b0:68:83 # Random MAC address (optional) networks: virtualnet: # Name of macvlan ipv4_address: 192.168.100.249 # Desired IP for pihole dns: - 127.0.0.1 - 1.1.1.1 ports: - "53:53/tcp" - "53:53/udp" - "67:67/udp" - "80:80/tcp" - "443:443/tcp" volumes: - ./pihole-configs/:/etc/pihole/ - ./dnsmasq.d-configs/:/etc/dnsmasq.d/ # DNSMASQ_USER # https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/issues/963 # https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/blob/master/README.md#upgrade-notes environment: FTLCONF_LOCAL_IPV4: 10.59.0.6 # Desired IP for pihole VIRTUAL_HOST: pihole.mynetwork.local DNSMASQ_USER: root PIHOLE_DNS_: 1.1.1.1;1.0.0.1;2606:4700:4700::1111;2606:4700:4700::1001 restart: unless-stopped # Set container to always restart

• Need a totally updated guide for setting up pi-hole on Synology DSM 7.1.1+
  2 projects | /r/pihole | 6 May 2023
• How does one create an OS image for Jetson Nano B01 4GB for Ubuntu 23.04?
  1 project | /r/JetsonNano | 27 Apr 2023

  You could have a look at docker and try to run a more recent Ubuntu image on the Nano https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole

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