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fuck immo you must visit some dodgy shit 2000+ DNS blocked lol.
mines been sitting at about the 1000 a day since i put it in, going strong
cheers antus for the p/w info ; yep ; ssh on most distros is disabled by default these days.

Yeah, that's what I need to look at although I noticed a lot of pings from the chromecast on the TV and some stuff from the Yamaha AV system.

I also have a couple of teenagers that spend a lot of time online gaming etc

Definitely learning shit though so it's all good

yeah mine are all bloody akamai so youtube from my 10 and 12 year old.
its amazing the chatty shit you have in your home without even knowing. so its a worthwhile investment is the old pi-hole.

learning shit = win. good stuff.

I'm finding most of my blocked DNS occur when using news websites although a fair few local ads are still coming through (which ABP catch) Looks like I'll need to start blacklisting a lot of the NZ domain advertisers.

There definitely seems to be a bit of shit happening on the network even when no-one is home.

Tomorrow when I'm home alone I'll take the network down and make some changes on the Rpi.

edit: It looks Pi-Hole is self learning as the number of blocked domains is slowly increasing

Pulled out the Rpi this morning. Reset all the required passwords etc, plugged back into the network and I have full access to Pi-hole and can SSH into the Rpi from the network.

Success

immortality wrote:There definitely seems to be a bit of shit happening on the network even when no-one is home.

Have been running one on for awhile now on a ubuntu VM. My general browsing on PCs are through a VPN so dont get that many hits, normally a couple of hundred blocked per day. But its amazing how often my TV phones home and various android devices check for internet connectivity etc.

Yeah, I'm seeing a fair bit of the phone home/checking connectivity etc too.

I'm still getting a few ads through on some websites? Mostly on the MSN news website

Is it better to use the local ISP's DNS servers or stick with the google DNS?

I tend to use OpenDNS (the pi-hole uses this too), dont confuse the name open with a company that is um open and open source though. Still a large corporation that collects a crapload of info, like the google DNS 8.8.8.8 does.

Open DNS address are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 if you want to try them.

Edit: if your ISP offers unmetered content then using anything other then the ISP provided DNS will stop this from working.

I still wonder if I haven't got my router configured quiet right yet.

I have changed the Pi-hole over to the OpenDNS servers as suggested. Fortunately they are already listed

Its worth mentioning ublock origin these days, as a competitor to add block pro. I hope you guys appreciate that absolutely nothing is blocked on this site though. No trackers, no adds, no google, no monitoring, nothing - just a plain fast web site.