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@FreakyFwoof oh, pi-hole, I love you! you've saved my ass so many times, kepd the predations of the windows adds away and the telemetry. I can't wate for your upgrade to pi-hole v6! good buy php! you will no longer be required, nore will you lighttpd a server will be embedded in to the binary, this makes things alot smaller in footprint! warning, warning felloe pi-hole users! when you go and upgrade to v6, you will have to remove php and lighttpd manually! apt-get purge! alot less ram usage when the query log is being displayed. here's if you wish to read more on the upcumming changes! pi-hole.net/blog/2023/10/09/pi…

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Andrew Hodgson
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Oh interesting I had sort of taken to AdGuard Home for this very reason.
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew indeed! they are titeneing things up! if you get chance could you give the webui a spin? I feer for it's accessibility or it's possible downgrade? since they are using a new web-engin/server?
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Andre Louis
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@andrew Not relevant as such, but I recently switched away from standard DNS in #PiHole to using #Unbound instead, thanks to something Patrick mentioned.
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew doo tell? is that about extra privacy? due to unbound?
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew I have never used unbound with pi-hole before but i've red that you install it for extra privacy and not speeds.
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Andrew Hodgson
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@DonTheMaster With this setup though you aren't using DNS over TLS to talk to the recursive resolvers so if you want DNS traffic coming out of your network to be encrypted you need to use one of the resolvers like Google/CloudFlare etc.
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Don 🚫
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@andrew I would always suggest 9.9.9.9 over 1.1.1.1. Because 1.1.1.1 is an US based company.
@Andrew Hodgson
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Andrew Hodgson
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With PiHole it uses a set of upstream DNS servers like CloudFlare or Google. It can also use DNS over secured protocols to stop evesdropping on what DNS queries the server is making. If you install a recursive DNS server like Unbound behind Pihole then the Unbound itself will resolve the DNS records for you directly using the root nameservers and there is no third-party DNS resolver involved.
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew arr, I see! that sounds very useful! why don't they offer this in there installer? and why a shel script
@Andrew Hodgson
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Andrew Hodgson
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I haven't used either for very long but AdGuard Home is very similar to Pihole. Single binary in Go which does the web interface, didn't rely on a shell script installer which downloaded several other packages.
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew do they have a naytive windows binary? if they do, i'ma going to give it a spin.
@Andrew Hodgson
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Andrew Hodgson
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Yes they do actually although I was using the Docker image. github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuard…

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Andrew Hodgson
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Just tried Native Windows binary it works just as well as the Docker container and has a service install option.
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew going to give this a spin, thank you so much for looking in to this for me, i'm very greatful :)
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Andrew Hodgson
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No problem. I may take a look at the PiHole V6 container, not interested in installing this on bear metal since it needs V5 installing first. Another reason for looking at AdGuard Home is I use a hosting platform called Cloudron which supports direct install of AdGuard Home and that uses Unbound as the backend DNS as part of the Cloudron install.
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew if you do happen to look at it, would you tell us how it goes? that post i gave is from a year ago, so things may, have changed slightly. but then they may not have changed much at all.
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Andrew Hodgson
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Got it working on my test Adguard Home RPi installation. Installed V5 with the admin web interface but chose not to install Lighttpd or PHP. After upgrading to the beta I got the new admin interface up. Not sure I would switch from AdGuard home, to me AdGuard Home is more compact in its file layout. Web interface seemed fairly usable, one thing I noticed was the toggle between basic and advanced mode didn't announce clickable.
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Andrew Hodgson
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Oh also don't think we can yet run PiHole as a DNS over HTTPS/TLS server which is something I wanted to do with AdGuard Home.
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Andre Louis
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@andrew I do like PiHole's web interface, it's really easy to use and lays things out well.
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Majid Hussain
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@andrew yes, the v5 interface does yes. the query graph is not the best how ever, I razed an issue with the devs about it. github.com/pi-hole/web/issues/…

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