Questions tagged [pi-hole]
Questions pertaining to the Pi-Hole DNS sinkhole & server, useful in blocking advertisements in a LAN setting, by resolving queries which are on blacklists to unroutable IPs.
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Wireguard: iPhone has no internet when outside of "home" wifi
I'd like to move away from tailscale (which works fine but drains my iPhone battery) and use a regular Wireguard tunnel to benefit from my home Pihole when "on the go".
Raspberry Pi running ...
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How to bypass Pi-hole DNS on Debian
I have setup Pi-hole and some other things on a Debian server, using docker.
The pi-hole is acting as a DNS for my entire network (I have added the server's IP in my router DNS config).
Problem is ...
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how to have vpn traffic routed to pihole
i have a pihole server running in docker compose on my Debian Linux server. i also host a wireguard vpn (also in docker compose) running on the same server. by using the tcpdump command i have ...
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Is it expected behavior for Linux to NOT do subsequent DNS requests to resolve to an IP?
My machine is Debian 12. Here is the result of nslookup
lhtadmin@deb12-docker1:~$ nslookup nc.domain.com
Server:172.16.100.4
Address:172.16.100.4#53
nc.domain.com canonical name = lb2.local.domain....
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How do I run pi-hole using Podman?
I am building a home server just for fun and for the learning experience. This is my first time, so I am relatively new to all of this. The plan is to run things like pi-hole and Nextcloud and a few ...
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`nmap` showing different hostnames than expected
When I run nmap 192.168.1.*, I get a print out of all devices on my network. The hostnames are not what I expect. For example, the hostname of the Linux desktop (192.168.1.203) I am currently on is ...
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Have dnsmasq resolve multiple domains form local hostnames
I am running dnsmasq 2.90 inside a Debian 11.0 based docker container as part of Pi-hole 5.18.2.
I would like to configure dnsmasq to serve the addresses of my local hostsnames for multiple local ...
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bind cannot resolve login.live.com
I am using pihole forwarding to bind as a local dns service.
[root@server ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Stream release 8
[root@server ~]# named -v
BIND 9.11.36-RedHat-9.11.36-13.el8 (Extended ...
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Pi Hole ignoring rate limiting settings
I'm having issues getting my Pi Hole to respect rate limiting settings. After some investigation I noticed that the values under Settings - DNS were going into the pihole-FTL.conf file as RATE_LIMIT= ...
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Pihole warning elaboration: "reducing DNS packet size for nameserver ADDRESS to SAFE_PKTSZ"
Could anyone elaborate a little on this warning? Reading the unbound comment it references, I guess it's some configuration in place for security reasons (?), but I'm not clear on what the tradeoffs ...
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Docker expose port only to VPN
I'm setting up a DNS filter using Pi-Hole and OpenVPN on a VPS. Pi-hole is running in a Docker container and exposes port 80 for its web interface. How do I expose this port only to traffic ...
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Debian, docker, macvlan and static IPv6
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I am trying to setup a local DNS server (pihole) inside a docker container on my debian 11 server in my home network with a static IPv6, such that I can point all lookups from my router to it.
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Disable systemd-resolved to free up port 53 and use DNS servers provided by dhcp
I will be running a Pi-hole server in a docker container, so I have freed up port 53 by settingDNSStubListener=no in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and restarting systemd-resolved.
This has freed up port ...
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isc-dhcp-server and pihole
I have two single board computers in my local network (Pine64 and nanoPI), which I use for various purposes.
The latest thing I wanted to do with them is to have failover DHCP and DNS for my local ...
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Eth0 Has two IP addresses
I have a Pihole with a fixed IP, 192.168.0.3. It works, and I can get to the GUI interface with that IP.
Recently I noticed my router displaying alternating IP addresses for the Pi in its UI (the ...
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