I've been inspired to tweak my home network - I finally got all of my crappy devices to get off of WPA2-PSK TKIP and onto AES, and set up a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole directly connected to my router.

Imagine my surprise when after one day, it's blocking 15.1% of all network traffic.

I've been watching a Youtube channel called NetworkChuck, it's been entertaining. I'm setting up k3s on a Ubuntu Linux VM I have running in Proxmox, going to start playing with containers. He's got a $100 free
services offer on Linode, I might need to go check them out.


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On 28 Jul 2021, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Imagine my surprise when after one day, it's blocking 15.1% of all network traffic.

I have one setup, but I ended up disabling the included list as it "broke" too many things. I wasn't able to log into my bank & the Tile App stopped working among other things. So now it's really just the DHCP & DNS server for my home network.

Yeah, I could have seen what was being blocked and allowlisted the offenders, but it's not worth the yelling & screaming when something doesn't work...


Jay

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Re: Pi-Hole
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Wed Jul 28 2021 08:06 am

Imagine my surprise when after one day, it's blocking 15.1% of all network traffic.

mine usually hovers around the 30% mark for blocked traffic. But then I do silly things like look up local news which is 99% ads, thank god I got outbrain and its ilk blocked, local news is actually readable now! ----------------------
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On 7/31/2021 7:31 PM, Mantrid wrote:

Imagine my surprise when after one day, it's blocking 15.1% of all network >> traffic.

mine usually hovers around the 30% mark for blocked traffic. But then I do silly things like look up local news which is 99% ads, thank god I got outbrain
and its ilk blocked, local news is actually readable now!

Been using https://nextdns.io/ which is basically cloud pihole, but
pretty well curated. Been on the free tier for about a year and a half without issue.

Though I've been planning to configure pihole and wireguard for my own
use soon enough.
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Re: Re: Pi-Hole
By: Tracker1 to Mantrid on Fri Sep 03 2021 07:04 pm

Been using https://nextdns.io/ which is basically cloud pihole, but
pretty well curated. Been on the free tier for about a year and a half without issue.

wow, never knew about that one. If I ever get to leave the house again I'll have a look at using that on my phone
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