Make your Raspberry-Pi a Super Hero

The Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software. If explained with simpler terms, it essentially means an ad blocker, But unlike conventional Ad blockers which run on our browsers and block ads only for us, Pi-hole can block for all devices on your network and all you need is a Raspberry-Pi connected to your router.

It can also be used docker. Check here: https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole

It blocks more than 1.6 million ad serving domains before they even reach your computer .

Installing Pi-Hole

Installing Pi-hole in raspberry is ridiculously easy.

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

Run the above command in terminal and it will launch the interactive installer. Answer the questions and Pi-hole will be installed.

Configuring devices to use Pi-Hole

To individually configure your devices to use Pi-hole.

1, Go to settings
2, Find Network options
3, Find DNS Settings
4, Set DNS to the IP address of the Raspberry-Pi

Finding IP address of Raspberry-Pi

To find IP address of your Raspberry-Pi. Login and run

hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'

This will give you the IP address of your raspberry

Now you’ve setup your Pi-hole. Its time for me to start writing another blog and you to start browsing the internet Ad-Free . Until then, BYE.