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Pi-hole Started Blocking Freerepublic

Posted on 02/15/2021 3:42:19 AM PST by AbolishCSEU

right after the 2nd acquittal of the President, my pi-hole started blocking freerepublic as well as some links on other right wing sites (such as ben shapiro's site.) I whitelisted it but just a heads up to those with pi-holes!

If you want a list of my adlists, pm me.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: adfilter; browser; huh; mhhm; wut
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1 posted on 02/15/2021 3:42:19 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
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To: AbolishCSEU

Can you be any more vague?


2 posted on 02/15/2021 3:46:09 AM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: fwdude

unresolved DNS msg when on my wifi. looked at the log and sure enough freerepublic.com was listed as blocked. i’ve had my pi hole for 3 months and FR was never blocked
blocked (gravity)


3 posted on 02/15/2021 3:49:26 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

Mine has not. Have you updated? Some list may be rogue. Do a gravity update and compare to this log.

[i] Neutrino emissions detected...
[✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range

[✓] Preparing new gravity database
[i] Using libz compression

[i] Target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[i] Received 60887 domains

[✓] Storing downloaded domains in new gravity database
[✓] Building tree
[✓] Swapping databases
[i] Number of gravity domains: 60887 (60887 unique domains)
[i] Number of exact blacklisted domains: 1
[i] Number of regex blacklist filters: 0
[i] Number of exact whitelisted domains: 0
[i] Number of regex whitelist filters: 1
[✓] Cleaning up stray matter

[✓] DNS service is listening
[✓] UDP (IPv4)
[✓] TCP (IPv4)
[✗] UDP (IPv6)
[✗] TCP (IPv6)

[✓] Pi-hole blocking is enabled

Check your versions: Pi-hole v5.2.4 Web Interface v5.3.2 FTL v5.6

I have had no issues at all.


4 posted on 02/15/2021 3:51:14 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: AbolishCSEU

WTF is a pi-hole?
Something to do with a Raspberry Pi?


5 posted on 02/15/2021 3:51:16 AM PST by EEGator
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To: AbolishCSEU

What the hell are you talking about? “Pi-hole?” Is that a new search engine?


6 posted on 02/15/2021 3:51:28 AM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: AbolishCSEU

I was told to shut my pie hole.


7 posted on 02/15/2021 3:51:47 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

will do, i updated about 4 weeks ago


8 posted on 02/15/2021 3:55:34 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: fwdude

LOL... wasnt intended for people not running their own DNS server. We elite, the computeratti, run a pihole (a DNS server) on our internal networks that block ads network wide. Peasants see ads. We don’t. ;-)


9 posted on 02/15/2021 3:56:03 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: EEGator

“WTF is a pi-hole?
Something to do with a Raspberry Pi?”

I always thought it was a big mouth.


10 posted on 02/15/2021 3:56:35 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I am well aware of DNS and have set up DNS servers. Pi-hole is a trade name that I have never heard of.


11 posted on 02/15/2021 3:57:53 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: fwdude

no it is an ad blocking DNS sinkhole running a linux based operating system on a raspberry pi. on my router, it won’t let me use it natively as a DHCP server,though


12 posted on 02/15/2021 3:58:41 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

unless it is within an embedded app :(
moving target


13 posted on 02/15/2021 3:59:49 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate tfo mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Bonemaker

That’s what it is around me, as in “shut your piehole...”


14 posted on 02/15/2021 4:00:01 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator; fwdude; teeman8r
Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. It is designed for use on embedded devices with network capability, such as the Raspberry Pi, but it can be used on other machines running Linux, including cloud implementations.

Pi-hole has the ability to block traditional website advertisements as well as advertisements in unconventional places, such as smart TVs and mobile operating system advertisements.

15 posted on 02/15/2021 4:01:50 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: EEGator

It does. It is an add blocking DNS server you run on a Pi (and some other hardware as well). It runs internal on your network as your DNS server bypassing your ISP DNS server. It is fast and efficient. It eliminates 95% + ads you see browsing.

You can even run it where it becomes a high level server querying the root servers, and not relays. That slows it down a bit on the first query to a domain record, but that takes some maintenance.

Running it vanilla takes no maintenance other than updating it when new releases come out. I have taken an old PC and installed Pi-Hole on it for some corp clients. They don’t like all the ads either.

As a bonus Pi-hole blocks known malware domains.


16 posted on 02/15/2021 4:03:41 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: AbolishCSEU

Unless that app has a hardcoded ad server IP, even embedded apps. Youtube is a problem for some devices since they serve ads from the same servers as content and you cant block ads from an extension level on some devices.


17 posted on 02/15/2021 4:07:05 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: AbolishCSEU

What router? Turn off router DHCP and use the pihole for DHCP. That should solve your problem.


18 posted on 02/15/2021 4:09:36 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: EEGator

Oh, and go into raspi-config and set the pi to wait for network on boot and run a vpn client on your pi. Your DNS queries are none of your ISPs business.


19 posted on 02/15/2021 4:12:29 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: EEGator
"WTF is a pi-hole? Something to do with a Raspberry Pi?"

Pi are round. Cornbread are square.

20 posted on 02/15/2021 4:13:05 AM PST by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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