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Post by jhornbr225 on Sept 17, 2018 12:10:18 GMT -5
I use a Raspberry Pi Zero as a DNS server on my local network. pi-hole.net/It's awesome. It's amazing how much junk gets blocked. There was one night last week where my wife's phone was doing something overnight, and almost 15,000 requests were blocked, and that was just the IP address of her phone. And this was while we were sleeping! Although I have whitelisted compulsivecode.com, every time I want to download a new version of Driveline, I get blocked. I have to log in to my admin page, and temporarily disable the Pi. Then I can download it. Actually, any of the links that people post on here, if I want to go to them, I either have to copy the link and paste it directly into the browser, or go disable the Pi, go back to the tab with the link, refresh, then I can go to the link. I know it's a stretch, but anybody got any ideas?
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Post by tidder on Jan 28, 2019 12:54:16 GMT -5
Man, I know this idea sucks but it's what I've done at home after implementing something similar to Pi-Hole into my pfSense router. My machines don't use my local DNS to resolve, plain and simple. I ran into this way too often with my internet usage, but I didn't want to kill my filter completely because of how awesome it knocked out all the ads and BS on my kids tablets. So that was my solution, I'm using 1.1.1.1 on all my home machines that only I use.
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Post by COMpulse on Jan 28, 2019 16:45:06 GMT -5
8.8.8.8 is google's open DNS server. 9.9.9.9 is the 'quad 9' open DNS server.
Both are supposed to be safe and fast like 1.1.1.1. I think I'm using 8.8.8.8 on my phone and my router.
I may look into pi-hole. I've heard good things, and I've got two pi's just laying around.
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Post by jhornbr225 on Feb 24, 2020 18:38:06 GMT -5
Well, I had a Pi Zero W on the other side of my office, running Pi-Hole. Lately, I've noticed more ads coming through. I tried to SSH into the Pi, but it acted like there was nothing there. I checked my router, and could not find the Zero's IP address showing as active. So I pulled the power, waited about 10 seconds, then plugged it back in. After that, everything appeared to go back to normal.
Then next day, I noticed the same symptoms. So I pulled the power again, and reset it, than all was good.
This happened several days in a row. I tried checking to see if there were any updates, but there wasn't. So I decided to re-install. That seemed to give me all sorts of problems, so now my Pi-Hole is on a R-Pi 2 Model B, with a wired Ethernet connection. All is good now.
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