[mdlug] Fwd: Now the Pihole is not working

[Carl T. Miller]

That sounds like a temporary internet glitch that prevented
pihole from getting its updates.  You be surprised how often
a reboot can fix little errors.

c


On 2/22/22 05:03, Rick Hall wrote:
> Not sure of the how or why it was happening, but I decided to reboot,
> and all appears to be back to normal (for now anyway). And TOH still
> plays !!
>
> -Rich
>
>
>
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> Subject:     [mdlug] Now the Pihole is not working
> Date:     Tue, 22 Feb 2022 03:59:37 -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>
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>
>
> 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
>
>
>
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> 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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