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Introducing Pi-hole v6
Submitted 2 months ago by jwr1@kbin.earth to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/
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DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Looks like a great release!
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Neutrino emissions detected!
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If Pi-Hole starts supporting DoH out-of-the-box, I’ll happily switch from AdguardHome.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Update went fine on a bare metal install. Customising the webUI port is a little easier now, instead of editing lighttdp.conf I think you can do it in the UI.
I struggled to find some settings, I looked for ages for the API token. Found it in all settings: expert scroll for half a mile down the webUI API section.
I have an lxc and docker container to go.
Also, struggled with adding CNAMES in bulk, I thought you could do that in the old UI. You might be able to in the new UI. I just 'one by one’d them.
const_void@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Morphit@feddit.uk 2 months ago
That says it will only function for 300,000 queries per month. Based on my last 24 hours from pi-hole, that wouldn’t even last a week. Are you using a paid plan?
Artaca@lemdro.id 2 months ago
I am. Paid plan equates to like $2-3 per month. Tied it into Tailscale (I think TS has official docs explaining how) and haven’t given it another thought.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NextDNS isn’t selfhosted, is it?
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What does nextdns do that pihole can’t?
const_void@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The biggest feature for me is the ability to use it on any network (cellular, vpn, WiFi, etc). I never see ads. Pihole can’t (easily) do that.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
How much is Pi-hole worth it assuming I’m using UBO and also have most non-ad based streaming services?
I’m thinking phones and less often used devices?
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It’s extra protection, especially if you use non-browser apps on your devices it can limit tracking.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s really nice for random browsing/apps. Games, free tools, general web browsing; none of it loads ads.
Some mobile games will even attempt to load ads, fail, then give you the reward for ‘watching’ the ad.
It also stops devices from phoning home to upload telemetry and blocks known malware domains. (depends on the lists you use, heres a source for some lists)
froggycar360@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I love my pihole. Even gets rid of the ads on my roku homescreen.
4am@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m partial to AdGuardHome myself, but PiHole does the job well
csm10495@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I have both but just use pihole as a local DNS server/forwarder. I bump into too many random times where sites or redirects don’t work properly since they get blocked.
GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Pi-hole is one of my favorite pieces of software. It is the reason I began self-hosting six years ago.
chriscrutch@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was running Pi-hole on an actual Raspberry Pi 4 that was apparently running Raspbian 10. My upgrade did not go smoothly. But I got it and I’m liking the new version. The only issue I see so far is that the admin panel in v5 used to have a “remember me for 7 days” checkbox when logging in, this version does not.
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Why would someone pick PiHole over say a customized NextDNS on your router?
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Little of column A little of column B.
I use pihole on the LAN, then upstream is cloudflared translating DNS to DOH using NextDNS as the primary and Quad9 as the fallback.
Looking at the last 24hrs; the whole network has made 91k DNS requests, 14.5% of that being passed to the upstream (the rest is locally cached responses or blocked) so ~12.7k served by NextDNS. When/if that 300k limit is reached, cloudflared will just fallback to Quad9.
With this I get the blocking from NextDNS as well as whatever additional lists I want to use; plus pihole serves local only records for self-hosted services and fixed names for LAN devices (I find standard broadcasted hostnames unreliable at best).
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Thank you. That’s incredibly insightful. When I get the cash I’ll setup a PiHole
KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
NextDNS doesn’t support unlimited DNS query for free, I think.
Morphit@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Ah, I saw another comment about this. The free plan is 300,000 queries a month. That’d last me almost a week before it stops working.
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That’s a good point
muhyb@programming.dev 2 months ago
It seems PADD got borked. Permission thing is happening again.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I just found a ad-blocker build for the esp-32 so I’m gonna grab a 3-pack of the s3 model and some other electronics and play some games.
Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Anyone got screenshots of the new UI?