Pi Hole

magicmarker

@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.

Dashrender

@magicmarker said in Pi Hole:

@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.

It's pretty common around here to have people ask you why you're trying to use a non standard distro/application for something.

DietPi in this case probably adds some overlay features to make things easier for the novice, but I get the impression that those around here believe that using those crutches does nothing but put you the user in a bad spot in case something bad happens. This is mostly due to not knowing what those overlays are doing, and since you don't understand what they are doing, then you can't fix those things.

coliver

@magicmarker said in Pi Hole:

@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.

I don't think that it's unliked (although it very well could be) it's that it has no business application. It makes messing with Linux easier... but it also obfuscates the processes to getting these applications and systems running. Making it harder for you to troubleshoot and maintain systems in the long run.

It's also a new OS with very little community support and no enterprise backer. Meaning it doesn't make sense in a server environment where stability is the key.

JaredBusch

@magicmarker said in Pi Hole:

@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.

While this may or may not be true of the community, it has nothing to do with my WTF.

Go back and look at that post. Seriously WTF.

If you want to run PiHole on a Hyper-V VM on your Windows 10 instance, then just make a f***ing VM on your Windows 10 Hyper-V instance and install it. The instructions are quite clear and dead simple for any OS without that disaster of a process that went through.

Install OS in VM.
Log in as root
run install command.
1. curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

scottalanmiller

@brandon220 said in Pi Hole:

I was amazed at the stats page and how much was being blocked. Very big difference. There are a ton of sites that balk at using ad-blockers though.

I've not seen a single one that complained about this style of blocking. Because this is not an ad blocker, it's an ad url redirector.

scottalanmiller

@magicmarker said in Pi Hole:

@jaredbusch Apparently this community is not a fan of DietPi. Forget I mentioned it. I just really like DietPi to mess around with because it makes playing around with Linux easier. I'm a complete Linux noob.

I think you are confusing "not a fan" with "asking why you are a fan." Clearly you are a fan of DietPi, but I think we are wondering why. You seem to be using it in really weird situations.

In what way does it make Linux easier? Since DietPi requires complicated, speciality hardware it's not as simple as the normal options.

RamblingBiped

I'm finally taking the time to sit down and install this on an Ubuntu VM right now.

Alex Sage

@ramblingbiped how did it go?

travisdh1

Got this installed as a vm on my laptop, which will now use it's own local PiHole as the first dns server. Seems to be working well, haven't done a lot of web surfing yet, but I'm already telling a difference with those annoying "we want to show you notifications" boxes, they don't come up so often when using Chrome now.

black3dynamite

@travisdh1 said in Pi Hole:

Got this installed as a vm on my laptop, which will now use it's own local PiHole as the first dns server. Seems to be working well, haven't done a lot of web surfing yet, but I'm already telling a difference with those annoying "we want to show you notifications" boxes, they don't come up so often when using Chrome now.

I've done the same setup on my desktop and laptop for awhile now too. Its working pretty good.
Its setup on KVM while I'm using Fedora and on Hyper-V while I'm on Windows 10. Gotta love virtualization.

RamblingBiped

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@ramblingbiped how did it go?

I really like the design of the UI and they did a great job on installation and configuration of the software. I spun it up and changed the DNS configuration for my Google Fiber account so that all devices on my network get assigned PiHole for their DNS, and et voila; I'm in business.

I haven't really noticed any improvement in the quality of internet, but it seems to be working.

scottalanmiller

My wife noticed most on her phone where ads that used to take up her screen had disappeared.

Alex Sage

@ramblingbiped said in Pi Hole:

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@ramblingbiped how did it go?

I really like the design of the UI and they did a great job on installation and configuration of the software. I spun it up and changed the DNS configuration for my Google Fiber account so that all devices on my network get assigned PiHole for their DNS, and et voila; I'm in business.

I haven't really noticed any improvement in the quality of internet, but it seems to be working.

That’s because you have fiber lol

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller said in Pi Hole:

My wife noticed most on her phone where ads that used to take up her screen had disappeared.

This is my favorite. Works in the built in Facebook browser too. No need for 1 blocker anymore

JaredBusch

My wife had to shut off her wifi to get her shopping cart to load a bit ago. I was out working on the front yard and not in a position to troubleshoot.

I think she was shopping on ShopJustice.com or something.

Alex Sage

@jaredbusch said in Pi Hole:

My wife had to shut off her wifi to get her shopping cart to load a bit ago. I was out working on the front yard and not in a position to troubleshoot.

I think she was shopping on ShopJustice.com or something.

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jt1001001

dont (yet) have a lab virtual host at home, but do have 2 new (to me) PI's on the way so one will be for this app.

coliver

@jt1001001 said in Pi Hole:

dont (yet) have a lab virtual host at home, but do have 2 new (to me) PI's on the way so one will be for this app.

I've set this up on vultr. It's been working phenomenally.

Alex Sage

@coliver Same here How are you making sure it's only taking requests from you?

coliver

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@coliver Same here How are you making sure it's only taking requests from you?

Monitoring more then anything else. I'm not too concerned by other people using it. The admin interface is locked down to just my IP and it's a pretty complex password.