Pi Hole

[scottalanmiller]

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@scottalanmiller What Distro? What resources?

$2.50 instance of Ubuntu current on Vultr.

[travisdh1]

@aaronstuder said in Pi Hole:

@scottalanmiller What Distro? What resources?

Mine runs Fedora 27, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD (ram and hdd both more than it needs) on a KVM host.

[WLS-ITGuy]

This is crazy. 6 devices at home only on the network for about 7 hours:

[black3dynamite]

@wls-itguy said in Pi Hole:

This is crazy. 6 devices at home only on the network for about 7 hours:

Smartphones and Tablets can query a lot of blocks because of apps.

[JaredBusch]

Do you have an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot?
Because the single Dot I have is responsible for most of this.

[WLS-ITGuy]

I do not have a dot or echo. The 6 clients are 4 cell phones the Pi-Hole and my Mac.

[JaredBusch]

That top IP is my echo dot

[JaredBusch]

[dafyre]

Has anybody had an issue with their Pihole suddenly stop answering DNS requests?

I've had that happen twice in the last 2 days.

[JaredBusch]

@dafyre said in Pi Hole:

Has anybody had an issue with their Pihole suddenly stop answering DNS requests?

I've had that happen twice in the last 2 days.

Never.

[black3dynamite]

@dafyre said in Pi Hole:

Has anybody had an issue with their Pihole suddenly stop answering DNS requests?

I've had that happen twice in the last 2 days.

Nope.

[scottalanmiller]

@dafyre said in Pi Hole:

Has anybody had an issue with their Pihole suddenly stop answering DNS requests?

I've had that happen twice in the last 2 days.

Nope, have not seen that.

[JaredBusch]

gave my echo dot a DHCP reservation and rebooted it yesterday. It has not built back up to the crazy levels of phoning home yet.

But in only 24 hours it is already the top client again.
From the top down.
Echo Dot, Wife's cell phone, my desktop, my laptop.

[wirestyle22]

@dafyre said in Pi Hole:

Has anybody had an issue with their Pihole suddenly stop answering DNS requests?

I've had that happen twice in the last 2 days.

Never. It's been fantastic

[BRRABill]

Curious to those of you who used a cloud VM to install it on ... did you also install a SSL cert?

[scottalanmiller]

@brrabill said in Pi Hole:

Curious to those of you who used a cloud VM to install it on ... did you also install a SSL cert?

No cert here. I really never log into it. Like... never ever. I don't even know the password. Once it is up and running, there is essentially no need to look at it for most people. Of those that do need to look at it, just to see traffic, that doesn't require a log in.

[Alex Sage]

@brrabill said in Pi Hole:

Curious to those of you who used a cloud VM to install it on ... did you also install a SSL cert?

I don't have port 80 open on mine, only port 53.

Going to get to the admin GUI using my NGINX reverse proxy which has a Let's Encrypt Wildcard

[NashBrydges]

@brrabill said in Pi Hole:

Curious to those of you who used a cloud VM to install it on ... did you also install a SSL cert?

Yes. I set it up on Vultr and SSL for admin page. No proxy though.

[travisdh1]

@brrabill said in Pi Hole:

Curious to those of you who used a cloud VM to install it on ... did you also install a SSL cert?

I've never logged into the web interface in mine, been managing it through the command line only. If I ever want to look at the web interface, I'll add it via the nginx reverse proxy that's also running on that server.

[JaredBusch]

EchoDot came back hard.

I disabled the pi-hole for 5 minutes (setting in the menu on the left) and poof. it is happy again.