http://luispa.com/en/tags/pihole/Recent content in Pihole on Technical NotesHugo -- 0.148.0en-USSat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://luispa.com/en/posts/2025-03-08-router-pihole/Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://luispa.com/en/posts/2025-03-08-router-pihole/<img src="http://luispa.com/img/posts/logo-piholednsmasq.svg" alt="Pihole Router Logo" width="150px" style="float:left; padding-right:25px" /> <p>A couple of months ago I moved the DHCP and DNS services to my home Linux router and left the Pi-Hole 5 service on a separate virtual machine. Despite everything working perfectly, I hit a snag: troubleshooting from PiHole is complicated because all DNS queries are resolved by the router and PiHole sees nothing. So I decided to redesign the setup.</p> <p>In this post I describe how I install Pi-Hole 6 on my Linux router so it provides DNS, DHCP (with dnsmasq) and ad sinkholing. This involves undoing the native dnsmasq installation.</p> <br clear="left"/>http://luispa.com/en/posts/2021-06-20-pihole-casero/Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000http://luispa.com/en/posts/2021-06-20-pihole-casero/<img src="http://luispa.com/img/posts/logo-pihole.svg" alt="pihole logo" width="150px" height="150px" style="float:left; padding-right:25px" /> <p>Pi-hole is a DNS (and DHCP) server that protects your devices from unwanted content, without needing to install any software on the clients in your network. <strong>Its use case is to act as a sinkhole for the advertising that floods today&rsquo;s networks</strong>. Yes, a small Linux PC with Pi-hole on your home network to prevent tons of ads from reaching you while you browse.</p> <br clear="left"/>