Pi-Hole Local DNS Configuration

In this video I go over how to create local DNS entries on a Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole. I've made a video on this in the past, but there have been changes to the Pi-Hole software since then. It is now easier to add local entries and it can be done right from the Admin panel.
I also go over how to use the conditional forwarder if you already run your own DNS server, but would like to take advantage of the Ad-Blocking capability of the Pi-Hole.

[@puttygutt]

Excellent overview of pi-hole and DNS. One of the best I've seen. Keep up the great work.

[@oakfig]

Just installed pi-hole on my Synology. Perfect timing!

[@brierepooc8987]

Good video my guy! I’m using Pi hole myself because ubiquiti is slow as hell as making local dns easy

[@casperghst42]

.local can end up being a problem as mDNS and AD like to use .local … just make sure that you do not have duplicate host names ….

[@ierosgr]

At 12:00 what you are explaining is like the split dns service? I am trying to use pi-hole along with my ISP's router to run 3cx version 20 that needs split DNS or hairpin DNS or a relevant service in order for the FQDN to work both internally and externally

[@spooner868]

oh, 12:52 explain my problem , thx, useful info for me

[@borolo222]

Great video and great explanation. thanks

[@ferasmustafa2785]

Hi, This is a great video! for the forwarding between Pi-Hole & Windows server DNS. Have you thought about making your Windows Server the primary DNS in the network where it will forward any none-resolved domains to Pi-Hole devices? i.e. the DNS forwarding happens from Windows DNS to Pi-Hole to Internet. Thanks

[@ToastyAnswers]

This was my original plan, but my thought process involved the statistics the PiHole keeps. I wanted to be able to see which device had a high number of blocked requests. If I forwarded everything from the Windows DNS, I (assume) would only see one client in the Pi-Hole stats.

[@Ub3rSk1llz]

if ur reading this and its not working for you, try disabling your ipv6 adapter in windows.

[@PizzaManNick]

5:19 made me laugh haha! Awesome video!

[@squadrythm7856]

Boss tNice tutorials mate, thanks

[@kevinhughes9801]

Great stuff thank you

[@uuu12343]

Hi! May I know what whiteboard you are using?

[@ToastyAnswers]

It is the built-in windows whiteboard app. Unfortunately, they've changed it in more recent versions of Windows and I don't like what they've done with it.

[@mdsohelrana8690]

soft soft or won't touch it. It is different...

[@standvm]

I have configured the pie hole, and it works perfectly fine on my iPhone. It works OK on my computer, that uses IPV4 protocol and IPV6 protocol. If I tell my Wi-Fi network computer to use IPV4 protocol, and disable IPv6, the raspberry pie works perfectly well blocking the ads. However certain websites I cannot access if IPv6 is disabled. If I enable it, things don’t work well at all, block sites do not get blocked. It seems like the computer can figure out how to access these websites that I want to block via IPV6. So how do I keep IPv6 protocol open but yet have it filtered through pie hole?

[@bhaaratsharma6023]

That's interesting. I was wondering how does DNS resolution work for a phone in this case? I guess by default the default gateway and DNS server for a home network is the router. How can I make sure that my DNS request go via pi hole. Did you setup RP as a DNS server and point your router DNS to pi hole DNS?

[@camerontgore]

So in your A Name record can you not specify the port there? Is the reverse Proxy the only option then?

[@ToastyAnswers]

You can't specify the port in the A record. It will only point to an IP address. The port will have to be specified somewhere else. As far as I know, a reverse proxy is the only way other than manually typing it. If there is another way, I just don't know about it.

[@kale_bhai]

How do you set up a reverse proxy to use another port than 80 for local DNS?

[@ToastyAnswers]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5TRcqSElK6bp80

[@bankoledaresamson7514]

Good afternoon Guys,how are you doing. please how can I configure LTE MODEMS and CABLE MODEMS for Internet service, what I mean is CABLE MODEMS we be using LTE MODEMS, DNS,server, IPV4 and IPV6, DDNS, APN, GATEWAY,MAC ADDRESS.

[@LucianoEvaristoGuerche]

If pihole allowed SRV DNS type it would be possible to reach Https on non default port

[@ToastyAnswers]

No, for communication on non-standard ports (80, HTTP & 443 HTTPS) you will need something like a reverse proxy. DNS does not have built-in capability to deal with port numbers.

[@ElioDolarVlogs]

How to eliminate the rate limitation.?

[@IdanZvulun]

Can you make a tutorial on how to set it up on the router at home?

[@ToastyAnswers]

I can add this to my list. However, this would be highly dependent on the type of router and if it supports a Pi-hole installation directly. I don't currently have one which has this ability.

[@TheRensvind]

Does anyone know of a way to disable that browsers redirect to search with router.home? I would like it to redirect to a search as long as it isn't a valid "home address" so I don't want to disable it fully

[@SxC97]

Great video! Could conditional forwarding be used as a kind of 'High Availability' stand-in? I have a main server that backs up data to a backup server and I'm hoping to configure my DNS server to forward requests to the main server if it is up, or to the backup server if it is down.

[@ToastyAnswers]

You could probably get some limited form of HA out of it, but I don't think it would work like you are thinking. I can see a lot of problems coming up from a configuration like this.

[@iamrage4753]

@@ToastyAnswers can you cover technitium DNS server install\setup please?

[@sorinica]

does it work if I installed pi-hole running this file? PH4WSL1.cmd

[@ToastyAnswers]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it might. Just glancing over the script it looks like it just installs an instance of PiHole using a virtual instance of Debian. I could be wrong though. If you can access the web-interface of Pi-Hole, you should be able to do this. Again, I haven't used that script before and I'm just going off what I can see.

[@salexkorsan8790]

Brother I want to create dns server for my website, should it works on it

[@eygs493]

be tosty

[@OutOfNameIdeas2]

It repsonds to pings but otherwere it returns a Google search. Https.x.home returns a blank page