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I played with a pi-hole setup for a bit. It was nice. I got distracted and set up NextDNS. That’s where I am now.
I like I can easily turn it on/off when I just need to do something and no time to fuss with it.
I’ve got a home server, just not fully setup and going yet, but someday…
Any thoughts on why I might do pi-hole over something like NextDNS? I think the cost is roughly $1/mo.
Used pihole for years. Loved it. Made the switch to nextdns a year ago. Not going back to pihole. There is nothing wrong with pihole. I got tired of all the time I spent tinkering with it. But, the biggest win for me…nextdns works when I’m off my home network. So I don’t have to deal with the whole vpn back into my home network for dns thing.
Getting an error trying to access this:
https://den.dev/blog/pihole has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.
Works for me
Perhaps it's blocked for you.
Are you getting MITM’ed by your work WiFi or something? You should be able to connect to it securely. If that security handshake is failing for some reason, it’s a red flag that someone is likely mucking with your traffic.
My work's filter tagged the link as "Phishing". Seems suspicious. That said, it works fine on my personal device; got a valid certificate and everything.
Is it possible to do something like this with a newer router? My wireless-G router is finally dying after 20 years, and if I need to upgrade it'd be nice to wrap it all in one.
You can do it with any router by manually configuring devices, but one that lets you advertise the PiHole IP as the DHCP DNS option makes it a lot easier.
I haven't installed it direct on my router. I used to have it running in a container on my little proxmox server (aka old PC repurposed). I really liked the interface.
Then I was practically gifted a really nice Asus router. I flashed merlin-wrt to it and read some guide on how to install a different ad blocker. It's really good whatever it is. I haven't had to touch it in months, and I never see an ad.
Ive got a pi hole running, but I'm not sure if it's worth the hassle. To me it feels like it breaks more things than it helps.
I took fell into the 7 million sites blocked trap!
What issues do you have?
Anyone have recs for a site that I can pick up simple hardware for this purpose. Maybe not a pi but like a nuc? Or a refurbed.
Take an old PC or laptop out of the box-o-crap, install Ubuntu server, give it a fixed IP address, install pi hole with the one line command from their website, tell your regular PC that the laptop IP is your DNS server.
This is the easiest way to play around before rolling out to your whole network.
You can try refurb NUC or mini PC on Amazon with N100 that you can find easily between $150-$200 range.
