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@sidereal I feel the same way about it. A PiHole improves the overall internet experience. It doesn‘t kill ALL the anoying stuff, but I still consider it a big improvement. But you are right. It is sad enough that one has to take care about this shit rain by her/himself.
#PiHole

So the thing I can’t work out is this. I’ve got an Octoprint raspberry pi on my network. It’s assigned a static IP address on my dhcp server (#PiHole server).

So far all good

But. I’ve got an #Amazon Fire Stick which has a completely different IP address, but it seems to be saying its host name is the same as my Octoprint server, just with a .lan extension instead of .local

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Of course I spoke too soon!!

Didn't realise about the dnsmasq changes made in v6 and I've got some custom config for the routers and to make sure both #PiHole servers are in the dhcp settings.

But found the tick-box and it's all working again

The #pihole s inform me they've blocked traffic to google-analytics almost 50,000 times in the last 24 hours. The next-most frequent domains were blocked 500 times, and the most-hit permitted domain was hit 2000 times.

So like, what percentage of my bandwidth does Google have to use up before they pay me for it? Because at this point they're literally stealing (or trying to steal, love you piholes <3) lots% of the Internet I'm paying to use. To track me without my permission. Um.

Finally got a little time this morning, so upgrading the primary #PiHole instance to v6.

Updated the DHCP earlier in the week so devices are using the secondary first (weird sentence that), so this one can take a little interruption.

Edit: Lösung ist rebind-Schutz

Ich stehe gerade wie ein Ochs vorm Berg.
Ich habe 2 #pihole Instanzen im Netz laufen.
Denen habe ich lokale DNS-Einträge für einen existierenden DNS record eingetragen.
Frage ich die Server direkt, bekomme ich auch die (lokale) IP zurück.
Frage ich die #FritzBox, die diese beiden Pihole-Instanzen als Upstream konfiguriert hat, bekomme ich ein "Unknown host" zurück.

Warum?

it took me until this year to establish a #pihole for my network

it's blocking 20% of queries, many of which are my oculus quest 2 pinging Facebook every 10 seconds despite having been "off" for weeks

ad blockers work great in a browser, but it feels great to have this additional layer of privacy