Unifi & PiHole Configuration - M (2024)

FAQs

What is the benefit of using Pi-hole as DHCP? ›

By using Pi-hole's DHCP, you allow Pi-hole to give its dns configuration to each of your clients. This way, every request will be filtered by Pi-hole.

In the left side menu, select the "Settings" page. In the DHCP tab, in the "DHCP Settings" block, check the "DHCP server enabled" box. Pi-hole should pre-populate the IP address range with the IP block that your router currently uses, and the router IP address with the router's current IP address.

Optimize Pi-hole setting for benchmarking

We suggest disabling both logging and the long-term database during the benchmark run as both the log file and the database would otherwise unnecessarily grow, several hundred megabytes may be possible.

The only way for Pi-hole to slow down your network is if you've set up something to route all traffic via the Pi-hole server. Pi-hole only handles DNS queries, there is no way for it to slow down the internet connection at all, it doesn't see or handle any traffic other than DNS queries.

It blocks ads and malware at the network, instead of using extensions/add-ons for individual browsers, so you'll stop seeing ads in some of the most intrusive places, like your smart TV. Pi-hole can even improve your network's speed and reduce bandwidth.

If you're serious about your personal security, running a Pi-hole adds an additional layer of isolation and reporting which will give you insight into devices you have on your network, allowing you to know more about where your devices connect to (often without you knowing) and how often they are transmitting this data ...

Pi-hole includes a caching and forwarding DNS server, now known as FTL DNS . After applying the blocking lists, it forwards requests made by the clients to configured upstream DNS server(s).

The DHCP server is an optional feature that requires additional ports. If you have another Web server already running, such as Apache, Pi-hole's Web server will not work. You can either disable the other Web server or change the port on which lighttpd listens, which allows you keep both Web servers running.

Once Pi-Hole is setup, head over to the local DNS settings under DNS Records at /admin/dns_records. php . Here you can enter a local domain name that will point to a local IP of your choice. Example, if you have a local Bookstack instance setup on 192.168.

Prerequisites. To deploy Pi-hole on your home network, make sure you have all of the following: A Raspberry Pi with at least 512MB of RAM (all Raspberry Pi versions satisfy this requirement) and Raspbian installed. An SD-card with at least 2GB of free space.

What is the purpose of Pi-hole? ›

The PiHole acts as a Domain Name System, logging all DNS requests and filtering the Primary Domain Request. If something found was on the blocklist information it is stopped here. The DNS request is then sent through your router and into the internet.

Specifying a fixed Static IP for you Pi on your local network can be done in a number of ways. The preferred way is to allocate it as a reserved IP in your Router linked to the MAC address of your Pi's network interface so the Pi will be given the same IP by DHCP every time. I use a variant of this method.

You install Pi-hole on your server (in this case, we're using a Raspberry Pi) and assign it a static IP address. On your router, you set the DNS primary server to the Pi-hole IP address. When a device connects to your home network, it gets the Pi-hole IP address as its main DNS server from your router.

UniFi is a really good brand from Ubiquiti for network equipment (no sponsorship, just my feeling) in particular for home and small businesses. It comes with a controller to manage the whole network. This controller can be deployed on a small computer like raspberry Pi.

For this first step, we will download the latest available version of MongoDB 4.4 to our Pi. We are installing 4.4 as this is currently the only supported release for the UniFi Controller that is compatible with the Raspberry Pi.