Set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi

My first and main usage for a Raspberry Pi is to set up Pi-hole to block Ad for all devices on my home network.

Installation

The Pi-hole instalaltion is simple.

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

Basic operation command

• check status
  • sudo pihole status
• check version
  • sudo pihole -v
• update Pi-hole
  • sudo pihole -up
• change Pi-hole admin password
  • sudo pihole -a -p
• update Pi-hole filter list (gravity.list)
  • sudo pihole -g
• restart Pi-hole
  • sudo pihole restartdns
• list domains in whilelist
  • sudo pihole -w -l
• add a domain to whitelist
  • sudo pihole -w <domain>
• remove a domain from whitelist
  • sudo pihole -w -d <domain>
• list domains in blacklist
  • sudo pihole -b -l

Once the pi-hole is up and running, we can change the the DNS setting of the router’s DHCP to the pi-hole IP address, or manaully set it to the devices with the static IP address.

Pi-hole comes the default ad block list. I will discuss the selection of Upstream DNS servers and add additional filter in the next post.