pihole

Hi, So I’ve done some digging to the best of my abilities, but I can’t fix the problem so here I am. Ever since I hooked up my new router (RT-BE86U running the latest merlin) my previous one (RT-AX86U running the latest merlin) has been placed upstairs as a wired backhaul AI mesh. My router...

Hi, I recently decided to try DNS Director after I found an astonishing number of IoT things circumventing my piholes (plural). I think I have it configured correctly, but my devices that are configured to use the second pihole in DNS director are still using the main pihole advertised in the...

I use Asus Merlin and I have a Pihole running on a personal server that is added as DNS on my network that all my devices use on my LAN. Is there some other type of DNS that I need to also setup? I disable all DNS on all my devices so it doesn't interfere with the Pihole. Is this bad practice...

I have an Asus AC86U and a raspi with umbrel and pihole installed. My router has the DNS set to the pihole DNS and another DNS to use to resolve in case the first DNS isn't available. I do realise this means that both are used no matter what but it saves my network from crashing if the first...

Hello, I've trawled through many posts, but still cannot solve this issue, so i hope someone can spot it :) I have an AC86U setup with a PiHole on RPI. Blocking seems to be working fine, but PiHole is not able to lookup hostnames, really annoying, i really dont like to use manual mapping...

I have an OpenVPN client connected to an ExpressVPN server. It is important for streaming to have the 2 devices that use that VPN connection to use the VPN's DNS servers. I have “Accept DNS Configuration” set to Exclusive on this OpenVPN Client. 2 days ago, I installed PiHole on a Raspberry Pi...

I'm running two instances of Pihole for DNS: one on my home server, and one on a Pi. I'm also thinking about setting up Unbound as the upstream resolver for Pihole. Do you think I should install unbound on my RT-AC86U, or on one of the Pihole installations? I thought the performance might be...

Hi y'all! I'd like someone who is more knowledgeable than me to review my Asus RT-AC68U router's DNS settings if they're correct in my configuration. I'm running my own DNS server (Pi-Hole and Unbound) on my home server, but I'm not sure about my router settings are correct. I'm looking to...

Hi, one of the nice features on the ASUS routers is Trend Micro. Does anybody have some experience how reliable it is and how it compares to pihole? I am particular interested in parental control. Setting up Trend Micro seems to be very straight forward, but I am wondering how up to date their...

OK sorry but I'm a bit green to this. I've got a DSL-68U (with Gnuton) and AC-68U hooked up fine. Mesh-config, wired together. My internet works via a second ethernet WAN - and I suspect this maybe causing my issue? (Good old Australian NBN over HFC doesn't require the 'modem'). Essentially I...

In this thread I am attempting to list my various settings with the hopes of either confirming this is the right set up, or discovering where I might have messed something up. The goal here is to have a primary and backup Pihole, running unbound that will filter all dns traffic via IPv4 and...

I have a RT-AX88U running the latest Merlin. I have the router configured to connect to ProtonVPN and route traffic to it with the VPN Director. I have a PiHole that the router forces all DNS request to go to, and the PiHole, uses Unbound for most things, but will direct Netflix related domains...

I committed the cardinal sin of updating my RT-AC68U's firmware (to 386.4) without backing up the configuration. (I do have a backup, but it's a few months old, and I'd rather just roll-forward with a fix than roll-back.) I only noticed and learned about the VPN Director after seeing my...

Hi I have rt-ac86u with official fw 3.0.0.4.386_44470. I set my pihole as dns on dhcp but the devices get 2 dns on network adapter. The first one is indeed pihole and the second is the router's ip address. When I test each device's dns from this link I see 3 dns entries, my public ip address as...

Hi, I have set an Ubuntu machine to run pihole and it's been working great. But, I see that if I set the pihole IP address under LAN DHCP section, it bypasses the some rules I have in order to force SafeSearch on Google and Bing. The way I have pihole IP address now is under the DNSFilter...

Hi all, I successfully set up an OpenVPN Server server on GCP and installed Pi-Hole there. For testing purposes, I downloaded the OVPN file to my Android and ensured I could successfully connect to that OpenVPN server running on GCP and access my Pi-Hole admin site there. So I know this works...

With the help of @xtv I found what did I do wrong. But my issue is still not solved :( Original post title: Pihole + VPN, what do I do wrong? Hi, I have a device running unbound+pihole (on 192.168.0.11). I set up my router - AC86U running latest stable merlin (on 192.168.0.1) - according to...

Hi all, I'm new here and, as you will discern from this post, new to networking as a whole. I would be grateful for any general advice or input around my setup. I have some specific questions that are down to knowledge gaps and understanding. The main aim of this setup is to increase security...

I set up a Pi-hole in my home network and I just want to know where to put my Pi-hole's IP - should it be in my LAN DNS or in the WAN DNS of my router? If on the LAN, what should be then on my WAN DNS? And vice-versa, if it should be on my WAN DNS, what should be on my LAN DNS?

Hello, I'll start by saying that I'm a bit of a novice with networking and I've been searching around for information about this for ages and I'm a bit overwhelmed by it all, so I know the answers are out there, but I'm hoping you can help me to pull it all together. What (I think) I want: -...