SOLVED: After examining the output of pihole -g again I noticed [✓] Parsed 3 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (blocking, ignored 1467 non-domain entries) I investigated the link ans saw I accidentally gave the github link instead of the raw file, I changed https://github.com/autinerd/anti-axelspringer-hosts/blob/master/axelspringer-hosts to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/autinerd/anti-axelspringer-hosts/refs/heads/master/axelspringer-hosts and now it works!

I set up my first pi hole yesterday! However I am running into a minor problem, some queries are not blocked.

I have two lists configured:

• first one if for blocking services related to facebook
• the second one is for blocking websites related to Axel Springer Media, which is a far right news agency in Germany

Both

Does anyone know if there is a DNS name or ip I could add to the block list that would stop ArsTechnica videos from loading? I like their articles but i’m sick of the embedded videos that auto play.

Is there a good way to extend how long the login cookie lasts?

I really hate using a password with pihole because it won't keep itself logged in in a browser session for more than ~30min. Pretty much every time I visit it, I've gotta login again. (unlike every single other service I host which remembers you've logged in for at least a week -> indefinitely)

I usually set no password, but Nebula-Sync doesn't support no password yet, so I'm stuck with having them at least for now.

A password isn't a terrible idea, I just don't want to have to enter it constantly.(regardless of using a password manager, that takes forever to popup sometimes)

I've just set up my pihole and I'm considering the best way to configure it. Is it a good idea to set the default group to block (almost) all domains and then manually add trusted devices to another group with a "normal" block list? My use case is untrustworthy devices that I don't want phoning home but which might change their IP address.

To save others from a bit of confusion I will make a post here.

The method to change the Web UI is "sudo pihole setpassword"

It will then prompt you for a new password.

To re-enable them, you have to set misc.etc_dnsmasq_d to true either by editing /etc/pihole/pihole.toml or using the pihole-FTL command:

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sudo pihole-FTL --config misc.etc_dnsmasq_d true

  

Source

This has been doing my head in for the longest and it's time to finally solve it.

RandomText.api.met.no provides the weather for my Home Assistant, however Pi-Hole says it's bogus and is being refused Upstream, which is Unbound. I would really like to fix it. Even if I can whitelist it and just ignore the problem I'd be happy. Any suggestions?

Please talk to me like I'm an idiot, because I don't have the foggiest with this.

I did install unbound-anchor but that didn't fix anything.

I'm not sure this is even a Pi-Hole problem, but since it's most apparent there I hoped someone here can point me in a direction to solve the problem.

Every hour from 10 too till about 15 minutes past Pi-Hole has a lot of N/A replies for DNS lookups. At that moment internet slows down, pages load for 10 or 15 seconds or sometimes not at all. When running dig on the host of Pi-Hole it shows that it can't connect to my router. Pi-Hole is hosted as a container on a Intel NUC with Proxmox. The router is a unifi security gateway. As DNS resolvers I use Quad9 and dns0.eu. Pinging IP addresses keep working during this period. Resolving/visiting local domainnames (like pihole or my NAS) keep working.

Where can I start to look for a solution? It almost feels like a cronjob of some sorts, but there is not a lot of traffic going through the network at these times. Also the proxmox host does nothing at that moment.

Just a PSA: for anyone using a MikroTik router, using it for their DHCP server and are having issues with their devices not using Pi-hole.

If you have set the IP of your Pi-hole as the DNS server and are seeing entries in "dynamic servers" then the router is using your ISP's DNS server causing it to bypass your Pi-Hole.

You need to go to the interface that is supplying your internet connection (PPPoE client, DHCP) and turn off the option "use peer dns".

This will disable dynamic servers and route everything to your Pi-hole.

A new update for Pi-Hole is available.

I've noticed that all my Home Assistant integrations that talk to the Internet are getting SERVFAIL from Pi-Hole. For whatever reason, Unbound just hates them, so I'm constantly seeing api.met.no SERVFAIL in the logs. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have the Pi-Hole acting as the DHCP server and DNS server too and this works fine for 23 hours and then it flops and I don't understand why.

Basically after 24 hours, all devices just disconnect from the router and when I try and reconnect them, they say they're unable to get an IP address.

But before they drop connection, they all report the DNS server as the Pi-Hole.

If I change my DHCP to static and connect to my router, I see that the Pi-Hole is still connected with its static IP just fine.

If I factory reset the router and then add the same SSID and password, the Pi-Hole automatically reconnects and then all devices can reconnect again, so I'm unsure what the issue is.

Can someone break this down. I feel stupid for not understanding what's happening here.

DNS Resolver

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/13315467

I have a Raspberry Pi 02W running Pi-Hole and ordinarily things work perfectly, but I've got something in my house tripping my fuse box which I'm unable to locate. The tripper, not the fuse box. Anyway, what it means is occasionally, I lose power and so my router and my Pi-Hole go down.

I've configured my /etc/dhcpcd.conf so that my RPi02W can have a static IP

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interface wlan0
static ip_address=192.168.1.100/24
static routers=192.168.1.1
static domain_name_servers=194.168.4.100 194.168.8.100


  

And have rebooted to confirm it's fine, and it's fine.

However when the router goes down and I bring everything back up, the Pi-Hole can't reconnect to the router. I can log in to the router and see it connect briefly, but it's only briefly and then nothing. I even try enabling DHCP on the router and it still refuses to reconnect. Ultimately the only way to get it to reconnect is to factory reset the router,

Anyone using this set-up? Before I sort out my router, I'm kinda stuck with it. I can get it to work by connecting my PiHole, disabling DHCP and then reconnecting all devices manually. Only issue is that if anything happens to cause the PiHole machine to lose connection, no other device can connect to the router.

Since a few days/weeks I couldn't get images from catbox.moe when I was using my WiFi with pihole. The reason was that the default DNS Quad9 (filtered) was blocking it.

It took me a while to figure out how pihole actually sets the DNS.

So in the Web you go to settings and then to DNS and then tick in for example Google.

I've had some luck blocking ads on Hulu but it seems to be an ever evolving situation. Is anyone having decent success blocking Hulu ads with pi-hole? What domains do you block and which ones are required?