Setting Up a Pi Hole Made My Home Network Faster

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OPNsense

#Operating Systems #Linux #Perimeter Security And Firewalls 94 social mentions

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DietPi

You can configure to use a self hosted DNS. I do this coupled with a VPN that was very easy to install and configure: https://dietpi.com . This VPN I access with ddns for free. Only fixed cost was the pi to run in (pi version 1 ram if by far enough for just pihole +unbound).

#Linux #OS & Utilities #Linux Distribution 151 social mentions

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NextDNS

``` Nonetheless, I've been meaning to tinker so I can have Pi-Hole sitting between our family and the Internet but optionally circumventable easily -- perhaps a big Amber Button which even my 5-year old can press and go into the Internet momentarily. 1. https://brajeshwar.com/2019/pi-hole-blocking-ads-at-home/ 2. https://nextdns.io 3. https://adguard-dns.io/.

#Security & Privacy #Threat Detection And Prevention #Ad Blockers 499 social mentions

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Pi-hole

I run it on my NAS computer in a ubuntu server vm. It was 20 minutes to set that up and another 5 to install and point my router's DNS to it. Maintenance is a monthly login, and a biannual update after puttying into the box. If you want a one-purpose device for it, then you would be looking into buying a SOC computer like a Raspberry PI 3 (should be cheaper than the 4) and about an hour to set it up. One little thing I have done is set my router's secondary DNS to 1.1.1.1, just in case the power fails or the PI goes down. When I set mine up I completely forgot to set ESXI to auto-power on the VM, so after a brief power outage I had no internet for almost an hour because I had no redundant DNS configured. I got blindsided by my own mistake. Now everything is on a UPS and the VMs are correctly configured in case power is lost long enough to require a shutdown. https://pi-hole.net/ has more info on the install.

#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 1185 social mentions

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Technitium DNS Server

Https://technitium.com/dns/ is what I switched to from pihole plus unbound and I havent looked back.

#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention 30 social mentions