I keep seeing this posted here and elsewhere. Is there a simple, easy step-by-step explanation for how to build one of these and how to deploy it on your home network?

I’ve got very limited experience with working with Raspberry Pi.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Step 1) Get a raspberry pi. Step 2) Open terminal and paste: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash Step 3) Point your DNS to the raspberry pi’s IP address.

https://pi-hole.net/

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. So does it slow down your speeds any that you can tell?

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It doesn’t really. I won’t give a whole course on DNS and network stuff, but basically it has zero effect on your download and upload speeds.

DNS is like a phone book. You type Wikipedia.org and DNS translates that to an address like 200.92.36.68

When you download stuff, that’s not going through the Pi at all. So there’s no negative effects.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Your own raspberry pi will probably outperform your ISPs DNS, since it's on your local network.

Also, just by blocking what it does, pages load a lot less, so they load a lot quicker.

[–] flipflop97@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you don't want to tinker with a Raspberry Pi, a simpler alternative would be AdGuard DNS

https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html
(Configure manually -> Routers)

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

I looked into making one a while back and it's honestly quite complicated if you're not a techy person. I gave up on it, though I think you can also buy them pre-built for a bit more money so you might look into that.

[–] danafest@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Their Official website has easy to follow step-by-step instructions

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You actually need a pi to run pihole, anything that can run docker would do

[–] danafest@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

You absolutely don't need a pi to run pihole. They have a list of officially supported OSs that can run the software, regardless of the hardware (as long as it meets the insanely low system requirements), and it can also be run in a docker container.