I’ve run Pi-hole in my homelab for years and benefited from using the service. As well as the hands-on education.

With that said, what is everyone else’s experience with the software? Do you use Pi-hole in your homelab setup? I would assume many hundreds of thousands of people use Pi-hole.

Edit #1:

The image attached to this post is my RPi 5, which hosts the Pi-hole software. Big supporter of the whole “SBCs for learning and home improvement” mentality.

Edit #2:

It is interesting to see the broad support for Pi-hole and DNS blockers in general. The more options, the healthier the tech ecosystem is, which benefits everyone.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    21 hours ago

    how does flaking out present itself?

    I had an issue for a long time where the pihole seemed to be bricking the network, and combined with the Eero mesh it was a pain to bring back online each time due to order of operations restarting devices and enabling/disabling DNS on the router

    • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      Basically the IP stops responding to any traffic. At one point I set up a constant ping, and every once in a while I got something like “destination host unreachable”. It doesn’t happen often enough for me to move the service onto a physical device though. That’s work and I’m tired like, a lot.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        hmm. I wonder if that was what was happening to me

        it hasn’t happened since my ex moved out, so there’s less traffic…

        but I think it actually stopped before that.