Re: [PLUG] Brighter plans: energy efficient, reliable firewall hardware

[T B <tablemakerrr@gmail.com>]

I have been running pi-hole on my home network for months now.  Aside from the earlier complaint about speed (100mb max due to the pi) I have had great success running it & updating it is just as easy.  They have also made recent improvements by adding a password to the main dashboard where it used to be open to anyone on the network.

It blocks ads on all devices including mobile by basically forwarding the ad to a blank web page server that it hosts itself.

The only things I have seen break on my network due to this is HBO streaming due to their analytics URL being tied to their license verification and the Jackbox games due to that website requiring a certain google analytics URL to function.

On 7/18/2017 6:07 PM, Rich Mingin (PLUG) wrote:

I'm familiar with Pi-Hole, and it does DNS-passthrough. I personally wouldn't use it for my router, since I have gigabit, but for a slower connection on a decent miniPC, it should be fast enough.

I only ran Pi-Hole for a week or two, and then replaced it with the same idea, but done as a module on my pfSense instance. Was a little easier to setup (since my pfSense is already doing DNS resolution and forwarding), and fewer moving parts to maintain.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote:

I've just recently been told about pi-hole https://pi-hole.net/ which should allow adblocking on all devices on your network, without having to install adblockers on each client.  I don't have the tech chops to fully evaluate this, but it sounds great.

However, it looks like it will require a "full" version of linux, not the kind of stripped-down version provided by Tomato, which lets it fit onto a Linksys WRT54G.

Anyone familiar with pi-hole?  Is that correct--I now have another reason to replace my router with one of the mini x86 boxes we've been discussing?

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