David Gerard

I'm using Firefox in safe mode because of the 144-on profile corruption bug. So no adblocker.

Has anyone here installed pihole locally yourselves? How's it go?

(thinking of it just running on this laptop in the background and i do dns from firefox to localhost port whatever)

Oct 20 at 2:45pmWeb
Show threadAnnaOct 20
@davidgerard I have it running in a podman container, works great, happy to share the systemd unit for it
Show threadThe Tech Lord ⊕ `Lex PendragonOct 20

@davidgerard First, I had Firefox issues but it was rebuilt on OpenSUSE's build service has has worked since.

Second, I have @Chance set up as DNS server and point her at Ad Blocking DNS servers, the same as a PiHole. It's been great, the biggest issue I saw was that my kids couldn't watch ads to get bonus things in their phone games. (I wasn't sympathetic to them.)

Show threadThomas BrockOct 20
@davidgerard I have it running on a Raspberry Pi and love it. However, it is not perfect. After years of running, I had the SD card go into readonly mode after too many writes. I cloned the card to a new one and everything worked fine again. I now have high endurance SD cards, so this should be less of an issue. I plan on running a second PiHole in a docker container on my Synology for some redundancy.
Show threadThomas BrockOct 20
@davidgerard Also, I had to block outbound DNS at my router to block things that ignore the DHCP DNS entry and try and use random name servers on the internet.
Show threadThomas SandmannOct 20
@davidgerard Running it in a docker container on the same small Linux box works very well for me.
Show threadDavid Fleetwood - RG AdminOct 20
@davidgerard I do not know what your setup looks like but I do everything on my router, which is OPNSense. You can set up adblocking there and get it network wide.
Show threadDickon HoodOct 20
@davidgerard I run it in a small VM. It just works.
Show threadGourdOct 20
@davidgerard In add-on settings, you can turn on individual extensions in private mode. So you could turn on uBlock Origin et.all there.
Show threadDavid GerardOct 20
@gourd noooot in safe mode!
Show threadBruno NicolettiOct 20
@davidgerard I’ve had a pihole for a year or so running on a Raspberry pi-4. Very easy to set up if you can handle command lines. Works fine.
Show threadAlien software, human hardwareOct 20

@davidgerard used to have one years ago, but the family rebelled, broke to many sites

(And by rebelled i mean, they kept calling tech support, which is terribly understaffed, because it's only me)

Probably at least partly my fault though, could probably have been fine with some configuration work.

Show threadcplOct 20
@davidgerard Maybe also look into blocky, which is like pihole, but just one Go binary with a config file instead of the web UI. Don't see a reason why one shouldn't run it locally. https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky
GitHub - 0xERR0R/blocky: Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features

Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network with many features - 0xERR0R/blocky

GitHub
Show threadmathewOct 21

@davidgerard I’d recommend AdGuard Home over Pi-hole.
https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome

I also used grimd successfully for a while, it hasn’t seen any recent development but I’m sure it still works.
https://github.com/looterz/grimd

Another option is blocky, but I haven't tried that one.
https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky