Is a raspberry pi 1 good enough for a pihole server? : pihole
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/10
Many people use it that way. Which means I can put it on an old Raspberry Pi B+ revision 1.2 board (which Wikipedia indicates as the B 1+ in the Specifications table but as Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+ revision 1.2 in the schematics of connectors).
I might consider DietPi as distribution (which is Debian based) as it is even ligher.
See [WayBack] https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/6h39zr/is_a_raspberry_pi_1_good_enough_for_a_pihole/#divw0i5
One more note: I need to check out which Debian base name (which indicates the version) works best as there seemed to be a dnsmasq issue (not archived because discourse hatesdislikes the WayBack machine and Archive.is):
- Install a more recent dnsmasq on Raspbian Jessie – FAQs – Pi-hole Userspace
- Dnsmasq fails on Pi-hole 3.3 – Help – Pi-hole Userspace
Like Apple, Android and Delphi, they use name based versions of which I always forget the order of. Luckily the source of the below table gets updated over time [2017 Archive.is, 2018 Archive.is] Debian releases and names – Electric Toolbox Debian releases are named after characters from Toy Story and are frequently referred to with the name rather than the version.:
Version Code name Release date Toy Story character 1.1 Buzz 1996-06-17 Buzz Lightyear 1.2 Rex 1996-12-12 Rex (the T-Rex) 1.3 Bo 1997-06-05 Bo Peep 2.0 Hamm 1998-07-24 Hamm (the pig) 2.1 Slink 1999-03-09 Slinky Dog 2.2 Potato 2000-08-15 Mr Potato Head 3.0 Woody 2002-07-19 Woody the cowboy 3.1 Sarge 2005-06-06 Sarge from the Bucket O’ Soldiers 4.0 Etch 2007-04-08 Etch, the Etch-A-Sketch 5.0 Lenny 2009-02-14 Lenny, the binoculars 6.0 Squeeze 2011-02-06 Squeeze toy aliens 7 Wheezy 2013-05-04 Wheezy the penguin 8 Jessie 2015-04-26 Jessie the cowgirl 9 Stretch 2017-06-17 Rubber octopus from Toy Story 3 10 Buster not yet released Andy’s pet dog 11 Bullseye Not yet released Woody’s horse Sid “unstable” The next door neighbour
Via: [WayBack] Software-update: Pi-hole 3.3.1 – IT Pro – Downloads – Tweakers
–jeroen
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jpluimers said
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Wolfgang Rupprecht: Sounds like an experiment is called for. I suspect the biggest problem will be memory. Recursive DNS servers can easily use up the limited memory an rpi has. I normally run unbound on my machines themselves so memory is much more than the resolver needs. Just the other day I came across the unbound format file of advertising hostnames that is meant to be used to blackhole advertisers. I should try adding that to my config to see how well it works.