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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    This is a fantastic discussion here, and a lot of robust debate! I think the arguments for running PiHole on separate devices actually directly confirm that the resource usage is negligible. And if this is the case - then one might as well run PiHole on the router itself! One can probably tweak...
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    I was able to replace Diversion with PiHole, so both of these are router entities. Thanks again for pushing this project forward! And, there is no performance impact on the router. So it's literally a free PiHole instance, no extra devices and no new electricity consumption. If I had a Proxmox...
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    Depending on the Raspberry Pi vintage, I think the Asus router hardware is likely to be faster. Proxmox is of course different!
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    And, I hear it gets really cold in Canada, so one can use all the waste heat ! :)
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    Right. I have a Proxmox box sitting switched off where I thought I'd have more use, such as a Home Assistant. But not yet. So don't want to keep it running just for PiHole. Say the extra device wants 10 watts of power. That is 88 kWh per year, which at my rates is slightly above $10. I already...
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    There is no internet without the router, yes? So a separate PiHole does not solving any additional issues. The biggest question if the router PiHole crashes and does not recover, which would be a major nuisance. It appears robust enough. Therefore the fewer hardware pieces, the better! Unless...
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    I've been running PiHole on AC86u for a few months now. The router is rebooted nightly. So far I have not seen any DNS outages caused by PiHole - so it appears robust. The web interface for PiHole takes probably 4-5 seconds to spin up from the cold state, then a few more seconds after I type in...
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    This version appears to be slightly more user friendly. Memory usage dropped. Thank you again for staying on top of this, and updating the versions as they come out!!!
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    Upgraded - will see how it goes ...
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    Scribe Scribe v3.2.5 [2025-Nov-23] - Entware syslog-ng and logrotate installer for Asuswrt-Merlin

    @Martinski After I installed the latest version 3.2.5 I got a couple of reboots that kept the old messages file. So things are back to normal it seems. Full mystery what it was ...
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    Alright, looks like after setting the history to 15 days, the displayed memory dropped. admin@RT-AC86U-9988:/tmp/mnt/ac86u/entware/etc/pihole# ls -lta *.db -rw-r----- 1 pihole pihole 227610624 Nov 25 21:28 pihole-FTL.db -rw-r----- 1 pihole pihole 6344704 Nov 23 09:43 gravity.db -rw-r----- 1...
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    That's a good point. How do I shrink it?
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    admin@RT-AC86U-9988:/tmp/mnt/ac86u/entware/etc/pihole# ls -lta *.db -rw-r----- 1 pihole pihole 227610624 Nov 24 12:29 pihole-FTL.db -rw-r----- 1 pihole pihole 6344704 Nov 23 09:43 gravity.db -rw-r----- 1 pihole pihole 13426688 Nov 13 10:15 gravity_old.db -rw-r----- 1 pihole pihole 3387392...
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    Scribe Scribe v3.2.5 [2025-Nov-23] - Entware syslog-ng and logrotate installer for Asuswrt-Merlin

    Debug log today - without a reboot yet.
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    Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

    It does not take much for memory to skyrocket: admin@RT-AC86U-9988:/tmp/mnt/ac86u/entware/var/log# /opt/etc/init.d/S65pihole-FTL restart Shutting down pihole-FTL... done. Starting pihole-FTL... done. admin@RT-AC86U-9988:/tmp/mnt/ac86u/entware/var/log# ps wT | grep...
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