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    Pi_Hole

    Pi Hole

    Installation

    I’m using ubuntu as my base machine to install PiHole on old pc hardware with Wifi card enabled.

    Config

    web ui: http://192.168.1.89/admin

    DNS: http://192.168.1.89

    Blocklist

    Regex

    https://pi-hole.net/
    https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

    To install updates, run pihole -up
    (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/update/)

    Commands

    https://docs.pi-hole.net/core/pihole-command/

    https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/the-pihole-command-with-examples/738

    pihole status
pihole restartdns

    Reboot Pi hole service

    pihole restartdns

systemctl pihole-FTL restart

    Reconfigure Pi Hole
    You can run pihole -r and reconfigure the IP etc. That's probably the easiest.

    Rate limits

    Changing the config to not rate limit my DNS resolution for clients connected.

    Rate-limiting can easily be disabled by setting RATE_LIMIT=0/0 in /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf. If I want, say, to set a rate limit of 1 query per hour, the option should look like RATE_LIMIT=1/3600.

    https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/configfile/#rate_limit

    https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/osm2fn/psa_if_you_are_having_random_dns_resolution/

    DNS

    Maximum number of concurrent DNS queries reached

    Below list the following detailed steps that were taking to attempt to resolve this concern:

    • Connect to pihole via SSH

    • Navigate to /etc/dnsmasq.d/

    • check to see if the following .conf exists on your Pihole instance
      02-custom-settings.conf

    • If this does not exist proceed with the following command
      sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.d/02-custom-settings.conf

    • Add the following to the above .conf

    #### EDIT SETTINGS
dns-forward-max=5096
min-cache-ttl=300
rebind-domain-ok=
#### END EDIT

    • Save and exit the config

    • Reboot your PiHole instance

    Source for above instructions