I have it running in a container in my closet server. It’s got It’s own IP address using a macvlan setup.
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Im_old@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Just so you know, you can run pi-hole as a container as well
About dhcp, I don’t know about unifi, but I guess in the firewall you can configure static dhcp leases. So son1 devices always get same ip. Then you can configure a hairpin port forwarding, so any requests for ports tcp/udp53 from his devices get forwarded to pi-hole. That is assuming that in the “general” dhcp config you assign an external dns.
Otherwise you could try creating two different dhcp pools, one with pi-hole (and make sure son1 devices get a static lease in there) and one for everyone else.
As a side note, I recommend looking into self hosting your piped instance, so even son2 can enjoy YouTube without all the ads! (And the tracking)
nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Posting here so I remember to share my UniFi setup later. Off the top of my head UniFi manages my DHCP leases like normal, and I set my DNS to my Pihole server with I forget what logging option on so I get full metrics in Pihole of what clients are what for each DNS request.
AliasVortex@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That sounds pretty similar to how I have my network setup:
true,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.1.1,lannote:.lanis optional here, I uss it for my internal TLD) to get device names from routerThat way I get stats in all the places and can use Unifi for DHCP.