[mdlug] Now the Pihole is not working

[Rick Hall]

In regard to TOH, after a while (hour or so), I refreshed the page and I
was able to view the video. So that seems to be resolved.

However, after another while, I noticed the Raspberry Pi-hole was
flashing the green light at a regular rate. I dug into it, and it
appears that the Pi-hole Pi somehow was not working. I couldn't even SSH
into it. Fortunately, I have another, so swapped out the SD card and
tested that. It came up and was able to SSH into it. All SEEMED to be
working. Not it appears that the Pi-hole blocking is not working as I
get ads that I didn't get before when the other Pi (h/w) was in place. I
even added some domains to the blacklist but I still get the ads
(assuming I specified the domains correctly by looking at the frame
source). To be sure, I ran the pihole enable command, but it said it was
'already running - nothing to do'.

I checked everything I can think of, but can't figure out why those ads
keep showing up. Is there some setting or config item I'm missing?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks
-Rixch



-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [mdlug] "An entitlement is required to play this video. "
Date: 	Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:19:00 -0500
From: 	Rick Hall <email5000 at usa.com>
Reply-To: 	MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
To: 	MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>



No. I ran 'pihole disable'. The response showed that it was disabled. I
refreshed the web page, but the entitlement box re-appeared.

It would appear that the problem is with TOH, not me.

Thanks for the feedback.
-Rich

On 2/21/2022 16:07, Brandon Fotiu wrote:
> Also, if you disable pi-hole completely and reload the page does the
> video play?
>
> On 2/21/22 13:03, Carl T. Miller wrote:
>> One thought...go to the pihole web page and click on the
>> query log.  Note the time of the latest entry.  Next, try to
>> play the video again, then immediately go back to the
>> query log and refresh to page.  You can see what domain
>> lookups were allowed and denied.
>>
>> c
>>
>>
>> On 2/21/22 12:52, Rick Hall wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I was attempting to watch the latest "This Old House" episode but was
>>> shown the pop-up: "An entitlement is required to play this video." I
>>> saw
>>> this once before, but within a day or so, it went away. There is
>>> obviously a reason for this, but I have no clue.
>>>
>>> Thinking it may be caused by an ad-blocker (a-b),  the only real a-b
>>> that I have is Pi-Hole, and that I may need to add the
>>> 'thisoldhouse.com' domain to the whitelist - it doesn't solve the
>>> problem. I also updated the pi-hold - still no joy.
>>>
>>> I really have no [other] idea what would be causing this. Any other
>>> ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> -Rich Hall
>>>
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