{"id":4587,"date":"2021-05-01T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=4587"},"modified":"2021-09-21T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:18:14","slug":"pi-hole-a-network-wide-adblocker","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/?portfolio=pi-hole-a-network-wide-adblocker","title":{"rendered":"Pi-hole A network wide AdBlocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element vc_custom_1619883088081\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h1>Pi-hole\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 A network wide AdBlocker<\/h1>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-3\/5\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>In 2019 there were a total of 763 milion unique installations of adblocker apps worldwide. Chances are that you are one of those people, Ads are everywhere in todays society and they are become increasively invasive with the addition of shady trackers whatching you as your browse the web.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of installing adblocking apps on each device you own, the more elegant soloution would be to have one overruling adblock to control your whole network.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Say hello to Pi-hole<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pi-hole.net\/\">Pi-hole<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNS_Sinkhole\" rel=\"nofollow\">DNS sinkhole<\/a>\u00a0that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2\/5\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vc_single_image-img \" src=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Pi-hole_Logo-287x312.png\" width=\"287\" height=\"312\" alt=\"Pi-hole_Logo\" title=\"Pi-hole_Logo\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-3\/5\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Hardware<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pi-hole was originally designed to run on Raspberry Pi&#8217;s (hence the name) however, it can run on pratically any hardware as long as it is able to have a LAN or WLAN connection and can run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/software\/\">Raspberry Pi OS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/getfedora.org\/\">Fedora<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centos.org\/\">CentOS<\/a>. Other flavours of Linux may also work but are not offically supported by the Pi-hole team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pi-hole is a lightweight service and requires very little processing power.<\/p>\n<p>The minium requirments are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2GB free space<\/li>\n<li>512MB RAM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-2\/5\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_rounded  vc_box_border_grey\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-300x300.png\" class=\"vc_single_image-img attachment-medium\" alt=\"\" title=\"1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-468x468.png 468w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-1116x1116.png 1116w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-806x806.png 806w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-558x558.png 558w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-655x655.png 655w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ-220x220.png 220w, https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1_LwNjUGU8Ao4OGfHjyiHfHQ.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Setup<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be my 2nd Pi-hole on my home network, the first one is within a Ubuntu VM on a HP server. I currently use that Pi-hole as my primary DNS server however, that HP server is my main NAS and therefore sometimes has down time for maintanice.<\/p>\n<p>I need a backup (secondry) DNS server to ensure 100% uptime and blocking.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 32px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3>Update your packages<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before doing anything I would reccomend updating your OS and packages.<\/p>\n<p>This can be done by simply running:<\/p>\n<p>(You may need SuperUser privileges)<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_message_box vc_message_box-standard vc_message_box-rounded vc_color-warning vc_do_message\" ><div class=\"vc_message_box-icon\"><i class=\"fas fa-terminal\"><\/i><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">$ sudo apt-get update<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">$ sudo apt-get upgrade<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_rounded  vc_box_border_grey\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vc_single_image-img \" src=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/APt-upgrade.png\" width=\"708\" height=\"254\" alt=\"APt upgrade\" title=\"APt upgrade\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h3>Installing Pi-Hole<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The developers have been kind enough to allow us to use a one-step automated install, this uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/bash\/\">Bash<\/a> which is somewhat <a href=\"https:\/\/pi-hole.net\/2016\/07\/25\/curling-and-piping-to-bash\" rel=\"nofollow\">controversial<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"vc_message_box vc_message_box-standard vc_message_box-rounded vc_color-warning vc_do_message\" ><div class=\"vc_message_box-icon\"><i class=\"fas fa-terminal\"><\/i><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">$ curl -sSL https:\/\/install.pi-hole.net | bash<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p>If you wanmt to avoid using Bash for secuirty reasons then follow <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pi-hole\/pi-hole\">this guide<\/a> to install Pi-Hole manually.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do is, clone the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pi-hole\/pi-hole\">repository<\/a> and run the install script.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once the install script is running, it will go through and check the status of your system. You shoudl see green ticks like I have.<\/p>\n<p>It will then take you through a fullscreen Pi-Hole installer. Here you get to choose your settings.<\/p>\n<p>These are the settings I used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eth0 as the interface (whatever you are using to network your Pi)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/1.1.1.1\/\">Cloudflare<\/a> as my Upstream DNS provider<\/li>\n<li>Default blocklists<\/li>\n<li>IPv4 &amp; IPv6 protocols<\/li>\n<li>Web admin interface = On<\/li>\n<li>Log queries = On<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The final installation page will then display your web interface password, <strong>make a note of this<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vc_single_image-img \" 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title=\"enable-third-party-blocklists-740x399\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_item\"><div class=\"vc_inner\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/12-enable-query-logging.png\" data-lightbox=\"lightbox[rel-4587-2485960455]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/12-enable-query-logging.png\" width=\"641\" height=\"414\" alt=\"12-enable-query-logging\" title=\"12-enable-query-logging\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><a class=\"vc_left vc_carousel-control\" href=\"#vc_images-carousel-1-1776289363\" data-slide=\"prev\"><span class=\"icon-prev\"><\/span><\/a><a class=\"vc_right vc_carousel-control\" href=\"#vc_images-carousel-1-1776289363\" data-slide=\"next\"><span class=\"icon-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_empty_space\"   style=\"height: 60px\"><span class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-8\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Configure your devices to use Pi-Hole<\/h2>\n<p>You have two options when configuring your devices, you can either tell your router to use the Pi-Hole so <strong>all<\/strong> your devices use it or you can manually tell each device to use the Pi-Hole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For my home network I chose to use the Pi-Hole on all traffic.<\/p>\n<p>To do this we must login into our router and change where it is looking for its DNS servers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a Ubiquiti UDM so this setting was found under WAN &gt; Advanced &gt; DNS Server.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can specify your Primary and Secondry DNS Servers, I have 2 Pi-Holes serving as my primary and secondry servers so I can poulate both this spots.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-4\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vc_single_image-img \" src=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dns1.png\" width=\"386\" height=\"229\" alt=\"dns1\" title=\"dns1\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Web interface<\/h2>\n<p>Now that DNS traffic should be going through your Pi-Hole we can check the web interface to check.<\/p>\n<p>Use the IP of the device to find the web GUI and then login using the details provided during the installation.<\/p>\n<p>You should now see a dashboard similar to mine, here you can see the <strong>total queries<\/strong>, <strong>queries blocked<\/strong>, <strong>percent blocked\u00a0<\/strong>and the number of\u00a0<strong>domians on the blocklist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the top left corner you can also see useful stats about your device running Pi-Hole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now sit back and enjoy LAN wide AD &amp; Tracker blocking!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div  class=\"wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_left wpb_content_element\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wpb_wrapper vc_figure\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vc_single_image-wrapper   vc_box_border_grey\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vc_single_image-img \" src=\"https:\/\/williamhenderson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/web.png\" width=\"1259\" height=\"983\" alt=\"web\" title=\"web\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc-row-container container\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-6\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>Testing<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can test your Pi-Hole is working by visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/d3ward.github.io\/toolz\/adblock.html\">Ad Blocker Test site<\/a> made by <a 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