Pihole DNS Adblocker – www.linuxonlinehelp.com

If you have outdated PC’s you can give them a Second Life as DNS Adblocker!

Sample Device with "hostapd" as Pihole Access Point with Filter (for Kids) — Sample Device a old Thinclient with Debian 9.5, „hostapd“ Service connected to a old Wifi Card as a Pihole Access Point with Web-Filter (for the Kids)

You can get the free Software Package at pi-hole.net

Don’t buy high priced preinstalled devices on NET cause a
lot of the Resellers DONT DONATE the pi-hole Developers Group!!!

Advantages:

Less Homecalls of all Devices at your Home, like TV’s, Tablets, Phones and more
Less Advertisement by Internet Browsing
Less Fingerprints on Internet
Faster Website Access
Live Logview by „pihole -t“ shows the Spy’s of your Network
Reduce Network Load of all Wifi Routers an Repeaters (MESH LOAD)
Reduce Heat and Power Consumption of all Devices
Allows Blocking of Adult Sites!
Raise Security by blocking Malware Servers with are Connected by Javascripts
Free „Pihole“ is available to Debian, Ubuntu and Raspian Linux
Pihole offers DNSSEC by unbound or with cloudfared DNSPROXY Howto
Replace the DNS IP at your Router with the IP od the pihole ! Internal and External!!
Add your unwanted URLs by easy access to the Rules Editor!
Add easy Blocking Rules as Text file by Command Line

Webinterface by http://pihole-IP

Shows Results of 3 old Android Tablets after 3 days!

Blocked: Spam Servers, facebook, google, social media channels, amazon!!

Overview:

Logs:

Console Realtime (sudo pihole -t):

Webview-Log:

Graphs:

Command line Rules import:

create a import Script with a Editor as:

„import.sh“

#!/bin/bash
filename='new-domain-blacklist'
n=1
while read line; do
pihole -b --wild $line
n=$((n+1))
done &lt; $filename

Later you can download a Blocklists as Textfile from firebog.net and run sudo sh insert.sh

Format of Block List (Sample)

google.com
google.de
google.fr
amazon.com
....

Fix / Update:
If the pihole Install Script fails on command „pihole -r“ CHECK the /etc/dhcpd.conf for WRONG or OLD entries!

like:

static_name_servers:127.0.0.1 to 1.1.1.1
service networking restart
check /etc/resolv.conf for 1.1.1.1
change for install to public DNS 1.1.1.1,
run reinstall via „pihole -r“ again
check status by „pihole status“
check /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/dhcpd.conf for dns 127.0.0.1 (pihole for DNS) again.

The Install Scripts can fail cause they are not enforcing dns settings by the install mode to public DNS!

Don’t forget to test all pihole functions and Backup the /etc/pihole by

tar -cvzf /root/pihole.tgz /etc/pihole

MAJOR! Problems on update Gravity Lists „pihole -g“ (Block Lists Update Download) check that you have insert all Update URLs of the Textfile Servers into the WHITELIST !!

..mail me bugs please..