[mdlug] pi-hole

[Carl T. Miller]

Most of your questions are answered on the web page.
See https://pi-hole.net.

It is a program to be installed on any of several distros.
They provide a one-liner to download and install the
program.  Just copy and paste.

They show that it provides DNS services.  So you would
use the web interface to manage it, and you would set
all your client devices to use it as a nameserver.

c


On 07/15/2018 02:54 PM, email5000 at usa.com wrote:
> I STILL don't know what it is. I've been searching for over an hour 
> and still all the 'experts' refuse to say just what it is. There is a 
> truck-load of implications --  many which are contradictory -- but 
> still no real usable information as to what it is.
>
> There is the obvious reference to 'install', which implies software.  
> There is a statement about 'at the network level', which implies 
> something to do with my router - and also implies installing it once 
> to handle ALL my machines. But there are so many other references that 
> imply something different. In any event, I don't think it will install 
> on my router.
>
> There is a reference to buying a case for it (WTH ???), so that 
> implies something physical - like a Pi (for which you buy a case 
> separately).
>
> If it's software, then where is it installed. And if it's installed on 
> ONE machine, then how does it -- how can it --  help any other machine 
> (if it's at the network level)?  The implication is that I would need 
> to install it on EVERY machine i have to get its benefit/usefulness.
>
> WHAT THE HELL IT IT ??
> -R
>
> On 7/15/2018 13:11, Carl T. Miller wrote:
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>> It's called Pi-Hole.  Like a black hole in a raspberry pi.
>>
>> https://pi-hole.net/
>>
>> c
>>
>>
>> On 07/15/2018 12:56 PM, email5000 at usa.com wrote:
>>> Hi Carl,
>>>
>>> I was about to look for the utility you mentioned to replace having 
>>> to modify the hosts file, but couldn't remember the name. I vaguely 
>>> remember 'ad' being in the name; and when I heard it, I pictured a 
>>> hyphenated term. I tried looking for 'ad'-<something> thinking that 
>>> the results would trigger the memory, but to no avail.
>>>
>>> What was it you recommended to use to preclude the ads, replacing 
>>> using the hosts file?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Rich
>>