Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole, Hacker News

Sick of ads on the Web?

Do you have a Raspberry Pi (4, 3, or even a Zero like me) laying around collecting dust and you want to make us of it?

Use it for ad-blocking in your home network and to finally browse the web, watch videos etc. without annoying ads.

One-liner install.

Take out your Raspberry Pi from your forgotten drawer and connect to it via SSH .

Now run the following for a simple installation of

Pi -hole : `curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash Follow the on-screen instructions based on your preferences (query logging, static IP etc.) and you're one-step away for a ad-free experience while browsing the Web. NB: Keep track of the password to access the admin panel!`
`Configure the Router or individual devices`

If you don’t want to fiddle around with your router configuration , you can configure each device indidually.

That’s the easiest method I find. For more information see discourse.pi-hole.net .

On your devices, head over to the DNS settings , and set as the only DNS server address the Raspberry’s IP:

On iOS

On Mac OS

Verify DNS resolution

To verify that the Raspberry Pi is used for DNS resolution, you can use a simple trick.

I used dig tointerrogate DNS name servers, like this:

dig trace cri.dev You'll see a similar output (check for your Raspberry's IP address): ~ dig trace cri.dev ;> DiG 9. . 6> trace cri.dev ;; global options: cmd . IN NS a.root -servers.net. . IN NS b.root -servers.net. . IN NS c.root -servers.net. . IN NS d.root -servers.net. . IN NS e.root -servers.net. . IN NS f.root -servers.net. . IN NS g.root -servers.net. . IN NS h.root -servers.net. . IN NS i.root -servers.net. . IN NS j.root -servers.net. . IN NS k.root -servers.net. . IN NS l.root -servers.net. . IN NS m.root -servers.net. . IN RRSIG NS 8 0 518400. NtC6ObYfTRgLakuNLhMl ... ;; Received (bytes from 48903 . 192 .1. (#) ( . 1. ) in ms ... As you can see, the Raspberry Pi's IP address ( . 1. (on port) 127 is first interrogated for the DNS resolution. (Admin Panel)


 Pi-hole's  administration panel  can be accessed at  http: // {PI_IP_ADDRESS} / admin and optionally configure it further. 
 Personally, I prefer to set the  DNS resolver privacy level  to Anonymous mode so that even in your own home-network your privacy is respected. 
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