Pi Hole - network-wide ad blocking
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Pi-Hole: https://pi-hole.net/
Especially interesting for on-premises Cloudrons- Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware
- Block Over 100,000 Ad-serving Domains: Known ad-serving domains are pulled from third party sources and compiled into one list.
- Block Advertisements On Any Device: Network-level blocking you to block ads in non-traditional placed such as mobile apps and smart TVs, regardless of hardware or OS.
- Improve Overall Network Performance: Since ads are blocked before they are downloaded, your network will perform better.
- Reduce Cellular Data Usage: Pair your Pi-hole with a VPN for on-the-go ad-blocking and save on data costs.
- Monitor Performance And Statistics: The Web interface shows how many ads were blocked, a query log, and more.
- API: Utilize Pi-hole’s API in your scripting or programing projects.
Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/diginc/pi-hole/
Pi-Hole on Docker how-to: https://dxpetti.com/blog/2018/running-pi-hole-on-docker/ (part 1) and https://dxpetti.com/blog/2018/keeping-your-pi-hole-container-fresh-with-cron/ (part 2)
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Looks like this can be easily packaged as an app once we have UDP support in Cloudron. https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/issues/504
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Should ideally provide an option to limit access to the local network only. I wonder if this would entail changes to
boxthough
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For "Pi Hole" read "Pi-hole"
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@girish said in Pi Hole - network-wide ad blocking:
Looks like this can be easily packaged as an app once we have UDP support in Cloudron. https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/issues/504
Since this issue has been closed - can we now have pi-hole on Cloudron?
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This is easy to get on Cloudron indeed. Two outstanding issues are:
- Cloudron currently does not allow apps to use port < 1024. DNS requires port 53. This is fixable, I guess.
- Exposing Pi-Hole on port 53 would mean, anyone can access it, not just you. DNS has no auth mechanism afaik. So, I can start using your Pi-Hole server as well as the DNS. Not sure if that is good/bad. Maybe with some firewall rules we can make it so that it is IP locked.
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@girish Would be nice to either have the possibility of keeping it open, or (my preferred option) to be able to add IP rules for oneself (ie. add rules so I can choose IPs/IP-ranges that could access this Pi-Hol).
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@girish it would be great to have Pi-hole in Cloudron and I agree with you it should be save.
Pi-hole itself advises to put it on top of OpenVPN: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/Is it possible to make a Cloudron-app with Pi-hole in VPN so you can make use of it anywhere AND safe!?
Kind regards,
Marcel.
