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title: Pi-Hole in Homenetwork
created_date: 2025-10-17
updated_date: 2025-10-17
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# Pi-Hole in Homenetwork
I followed this tutorial: [World's Greatest Pi-hole Tutorial - Easy Raspberry Pi Project! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE21YjuaB6o)



- Installed in goodolddell
- 192.168.1.51
- [Pi-hole goodolddell](http://192.168.1.51/admin/)
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## DNS Settings on Router
![[Pasted image 20251017195849.png]]

## Make Pi-hole the Network’s DHCP (so all clients use it as DNS)

> Goal: Your router can’t set custom DNS, so we’ll let **Pi-hole (192.168.1.51)** hand out IP addresses **and** advertise itself as DNS. This gives you network-wide ad-blocking without touching per-device settings.

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### Prereqs (do these first)

1) **Give Pi-hole a fixed IP**  
   - Make a DHCP reservation on your router for the Dell/Pi-hole at **192.168.1.51** (MAC = Dell’s NIC).
   - Or set a static IP on the Pi-hole host (keep it in the router’s LAN subnet; gateway = **192.168.1.1**).

2) **Know your LAN details**  
   - Router (gateway): **192.168.1.1**  
   - Pi-hole server: **192.168.1.51**  
   - Choose a DHCP range that avoids statics, e.g. **192.168.1.100–192.168.1.200**

3) **Make sure Pi-hole web UI works**  
   - Open **http://192.168.1.51/admin**  
   - If needed: `sudo pihole -a -p` to set/change the password.

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### Step 1 — Configure Pi-hole DNS (upstream)

In **Pi-hole → Settings → DNS**:
- Choose upstream resolvers (e.g., **Cloudflare** 1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1 or **Quad9**).
- (Optional) **Conditional Forwarding** to see client hostnames:
  - Local network/CIDR: `192.168.1.0/24`
  - IP of router: `192.168.1.1`
  - Local domain name: e.g. `home` (or leave blank if unsure for now).

Click **Save**.

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### Step 2 — Enable Pi-hole’s DHCP (but don’t disable router yet)

**UI method**  
Pi-hole → **Settings → DHCP**:
- ✅ Enable DHCP server
- Range: **192.168.1.100** to **192.168.1.200**
- Router (gateway): **192.168.1.1**
- (Optional) Domain name: `home`
- Save

**CLI equivalent (optional)**  
```bash
# On the Pi-hole host:
sudo pihole -a enabledhcp 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.1
```


## Todos
- [ ] disable blocking - automation: should be easy for every user
- [ ] backup pihole settings