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The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

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How practical is it to block everything by default? (feddit.uk)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've just set up my pihole and I'm considering the best way to configure it. Is it a good idea to set the default group to block (almost) all domains and then manually add trusted devices to another group with a "normal" block list? My use case is untrustworthy devices that I don't want phoning home but which might change their IP address.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's not a terrible idea; though it means extra configuration everytime anything new connects to the network. Friends using your wifi for example.

I just manually assign DHCP reservations for the MAC of each known device. Then they always have the same IP (without requiring static ip config on the devices themselves)

For a bunch of blocklists: https://firebog.net/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah that was going to be my plan, I think I can set that on my router but its UI isn't particularly clear!