Finally set-up Pi-hole on my network

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No, you can install it on Jio or any connection even with CGN. If your isp redirects DNS queries to theirs you can setup encrypted DNS on the Pi and combine that with pihole
 
eriek_halenx said:
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We've 4 devices here with Netflix app installed. But it's mostly used by a fire tv stick. Pi shows 4200/7400 blocked queries are for Netflix!! I mean if N wants to track my user habits it just needs to check its internal database. Why should it program a device streaming it to ping it so often...

Im guessing its to know something specific about the device itself... Maybe the IP? To know who all are sharing one N account maybe?

ichnaea.netflix.com is the query in question. Its mentioned as - alogging endpoint used to collect client information. Has anyone else come across this?



🙂 I think everyone will be handling popups by a browser adblock. I'm even okay with legal surveillance by our government. What I'm not okay is with every American digital goliath tracking my family's browsing habits for making money. Pi is my davidian step against them 😅
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Maybe it continues to send request cause it failed and hence the large number..
 
I am currently using Adguard's DNS on my router. Apart from seeing logs and configuring my own whitelists, is there any other advantage of running PiHole? And whats the cheapest ethernet based solution for running it?
 
Yeah i figured. I guess for my parents, I'd stick with Adguard since the chances of that not working are lower.

I have ordered the Orange Pi Zero. Seemed quite cheap and reasonably powerful
 
1. Is heat sink needed for Orange Pi Zero LTS if we run it 24*7*365?
2. Is anybody using Pihole DNS in Raspberry/Orange Pi with Jio Fiber? Does the landline work if we change the DNS in the router to the local Pihole DNS? (With third party DNS, the landline doesn't work)
 
@lucifer , this is partly a guess as I dont have jio. There is an option in pihole to set a custom DNS server IP. So incase of a request pi checks a) blocklist b) cache. Then it should fwd request to your Jio DNS. Also, there are options to whitelist entire domains.

So I think Jio users should be okay.
 
lucifer said:
1. Is heat sink needed for Orange Pi Zero LTS if we run it 24*7*365?
2. Is anybody using Pihole DNS in Raspberry/Orange Pi with Jio Fiber? Does the landline work if we change the DNS in the router to the local Pihole DNS? (With third party DNS, the landline doesn't work)
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PI ZERO runs very cool. Pihole doesnt take much resources anyway.

DNS is separate from provider. Ideally landline shouldnt be affected. You can also change the dns on the machines instead of the router. It will have to be individually configured but much more flexibility. I have manually used it for 3 machines and not full network.

You can change the dns even right now to something like google dns or cloudflare and see if there are any issues.
 
@partymonger Case

There were plenty of cases listed which you could consider. Cons of this one were
1.cheap fan, power cable is loose. Have to carefully close the box.
2.they gave me two heatsinks for IO chip. Instead of one for the ram chip. So ram chip is only half covered.

Whats good is everything, screws, plastics, cpu heatsink etc fits well. And it works. I'm attaching an image.
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