Following on from here where I talked about setting up a raspberry pi running pi-hole, its all good news. The pi has been running fine and it's improved our browsing experience no end. However, I don't like having a single point of failure for something as critical as DNS. Yes, if the pi fails the router does give out …

My raspberry pi running pi-hole was ticking along nicely and blocking all ads. We'd seen percentage of ads blocked hit 40%+ and it was improving our browsing experience no-end. The only issue bugging me (and it had been for a while) was that DNS queries are sent in the clear meaning our ISP (and probably google) are …

A while ago I came across a post about using pi-hole to block ads and secure DNS across my network. Pi-hole is described aas offering a black hole for internet advertisements and it will block known bad domains (and more, depending on the lists you use). As I had an old pi3 floating about I thought I'd give it a try. …