pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements (designed for Raspberry Pi)
Works on most Debian distributions as well. Hopefully on opensuse one day as well.
Source: pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements (designed for Raspberry Pi)
Not exactly the nicest way of installing though:
curl -L install.pi-hole.net | bash
Source: Pi-Hole: A Black Hole For Internet Advertisements
Source: In the past year, a similar threat has begun to emerge on mobile devices:…
Note that any ad-block mechanism needs curation to white/black list some stuff. But: who does that and who watches the curators?
via:
- OK, so I set up Pi-Hole on my old Eee PC and actually got it to work for all devices in my LAN/WLAN by allowing external IP addresses in dnsmasq and… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
- Für die Technikfreunde: gestern Abend Pi-hole auf meinem Raspberry installiert. Die beste Sache seit geschnittenem Brot. Keine Werbung mehr im Heimnetz 😃… – Lübbe Onken – Google+
- My Commuting and Computing Misadventures: AdBlocking with Pi-Hole and Ubuntu 14.04 on VirtualBox
- Guide: Installing PiHole on an Ubuntu Server to Block Ads on your Network – Networking – Spiceworks
- Pi-hole without a Pi. On a DO VPS. : raspberry_pi
Some more links for when you get this going:
- The pi-hole git source consists of two parts:
- the installer/DNS handler at https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole
- the web interface at https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE.git which is obtained by the installer
- How to Setup a Pi-Hole Ad Blocker – YouTube
- https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/wiki
- Whitelist Assistant by DNSthingy – Chrome Web Store (via: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/4qwq24/pihole_is_a_great_idea_poorly_executed/)
- Temporarily stop PiHole – reddit
- pi-hole/pauseResume.sh at pause-resume-pihole · pi-hole/pi-hole
Changing hostname
As all raspbian hosts advertise their hostname as raspberrypi it is confusing to set them apart, so I changed the hostname in these files:
/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
/etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf
/etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf
Then rebooted (probably could have done sudo /etc/init.d/hostname.sh) to force the new hostname to be used everywhere.
DHCP versus static IP
Note that pi-hole by default converts the DHCP assigned address on eth0 to a static one. This makes it harder to use pi-hole in these situations:
- preparing a pi-hole on network A and deploying it on network B
- using pi-hole on a DHCP based network where the DHCP server hands out fixed IP addresses based on MAC
To get going I:
- filed an issue Work with DHCP address instead of static IP address configuration. · Issue #629 · pi-hole/pi-hole
- plugged in the Edimax EW-7811Un 150Mbps 11n Wi-Fi USB Adapter which appeared as
wlan0in theifconfiglist - failed in getting
wicd-cursesto work: it would only detect half of the WiFi networks thatiwlist wlan0 scandetects. - used the steps at Setting WiFi up via the command line – Raspberry Pi Documentation to get WLAN going:
- perform
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan | grep ESSID scanto get a list of networks and their (E)SSID names - append the below fragment to the end of
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.confand correct the value forssidto the ESSID (keep the double quotes around it) andpskto the password for that ESSID (also keep the double quotes around it) - performed
sudo ifdown wlan0andsudo fup wlan0to force a WiFi connection refresh - waited 30 seconds for a DHCP address to appear in
ifconfigforwlan0
- perform
network={
ssid="The_ESSID_from_earlier"
psk="Your_wifi_password"
}
–jeroen
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 