I’ve been using HaGeZi DNS blocklists for my PiHole setup.

I used a list for Smart TV’s and specifically my Samsung Smart TV.

I made my smart TV’s their own group and only assigned those blocklists. When I do this the TV’s won’t connect to internet. But when I use all my other blocklists it’s fine.

I think it’s blocking some Samsung CDN but I don’t know which one.

What lists are you using to stop your Smart TV’s from spying on you.

Also, is there anything I can do on my network to isolate my TV’s?

The issue I’ve had with trying to do this is that I can’t access my Jellyfin server. As I would need to connect to a VPN which kind of defeats the whole point of putting my TVs on their own network.

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Hey everyone,

​I'm using Pi-hole as my main DNS server for my Tailnet, but I've run into an annoying issue: for some reason, the Tailscale IP address of the node running Pi-hole keeps changing randomly.

​Because the IP changes unexpectedly, my devices lose DNS resolution out of nowhere until I check the admin console and update my configuration.

​Context:

• Pi-hole is installed in the same LXC running my main Tailscale route node.

• ​The host machine has a static local IP on my LAN.

• ​There are no duplicate hostnames on my Tailnet.

​Has anyone else run into this issue?, What could cause a native Tailscale node to change its IP address like this?

​Any advice or troubleshooting tips would be greatly appreciated!

Hello!

I got 3 weird domain in my logs that show up at different times and I'm really curious why they are here:

1. disabled.invalid

2. sharedhost.files

3. mojang.fritz.box

the first one gets requested 3 times whenever steam starts, it also sends requests for www.disabled.invalid. The thing is that .invalid will never resolve to anything, so why would steam be requesting it?

the second one appears to be related to the Microsoft companion apps but .files is not a valid TLD as far as I can tell. And it also does not resolve. So why do Microsoft apps query that?

the third one is requested while Minecraft is starting. the .fritz.box part is the default local domain of my fritzbox router that gets added onto every device name. It trying to query a local domain will also fail since I do not have a device called "mojang"

I am just kinda tempted to create a dns record for these that points to my server and see what happens. Probably not much I would guess?

So got pi-hole installed, ssh in done the updates and all that, then I come to the dns...

So my setup isp router --> flint2 router (running mullvad) ---> pi-hole (have dashboard but no traffic as have to set dns)

As you can see I have the pi-hole connected to the flint2 router which is behind my isp router. I hoped to connect the pi-hole to the Flint 2 but when I go into the admin panel it shows me the gateway and dns of the isp router and is greyed out no edit. Does this mean I have to connect the pi-hole to the isp router? If so how will this affect mullvad on flint2 (2nd router) and will requests going to that router also get managed by the pi-hole if connected to isp one because main thing I want filters on are connected to the flint2

So to fix this would I connect pi to isp router and change dns to ip of pi-hole and will this upset 2nd router or will I have to make any changes on that router or should the isp one route everything to pi, sorry hope you can make sense of this.

Suddenly, my pihole went completely dark by itself. It was working just fine for four months with no issues whatsoever. Now I cannot access it using Terminal or any other way, and there is no way to find it in the network for whatever reason. Before I erase everything and start over again. Is there a way to diagnose the issue and see if I can fix it since I already set up everything?

Hi all!

So I have installed pihole on my portainer server as a docker compose stack, pretty much default settings and everything, thing is, I tried to configure it as I would normally do for any specific DNS on my main Linux laptop, and all the internet traffic went unavailable for a lot of sites, I had to actually undo the assignment manually so I could reach the internet in the first place.

Now, I have configured my router to use pihole's server bridge ip to be used as a DNS server, but i see no increasing number for the "Total queries" element, nor i see the active clients including my own laptop, all this being within the same LAN.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance!

This site/app was blocking about 3 weeks ago, since then not blocking, i have tried updating pihole, gravity and the lists with no prevail

I will 3D print something better, but as a POC, it works.