Ultimate Pi-hole configuration guide, SSL certificates, automatic updates, automatic sync, more!

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• Hi Brandon, can you share the scripts? I can't seem to locate them on your site.Thanks !

• I'm a huge fan of what this tech can do, but I really don't want to have to mess around with setting everything up myself. Do you know any reputable seller that I can buy a few of these from?

• ok..I want to run this. can you point to the docker file used in the video

• gravity sync seems to support only bind mounts in case of containerized pihole… How did you manage your pihole container using Docker volumes and not bind mounts with gravity sync?

• Excellent video, best tutorial I have found on this.

• Thank you very much! This is an excellent explanation. Can you also include unbound in the mix, and do it in a Proxmox VM or LXC? That will be awesome!
  Thanks again

• don't waste your time following this guide, it doesn't work.

• I liked your teaching, because I'm Brazilian and new to English and your calm speaking helps me understand. Thank you very much

• Missing unbound.

• Is a copy of the docker compose file available somewhere?

• can you add mobile devices/tv's into pi-hole to block ads on those devices

• Out of interest, can you have two services request wildcard certificates on the same domain? I already have a similar configuration setup using AMCE on my firewall. I use that to give my firewall a certificate, and other services via haproxy. If I then set traefik up with a wildcard will that confuse everything?

• GravitySync is really one part of a High Availability (HA) setup for PiHole.
  The second part for a HA setup is to install keepalived on each PiHole and you have to create a configuration file where you specify a virtual IP address that is established between the two devices and you then use this virtual IP address as the DNS address in your DHCP scopes or manually entered on statically any configured devices instead of one or the other or both PiHole IPs.

  When the primary PiHole is down for any reason, the secondary becomes the master and instantly picks up to continue serving as the network's DNS server and, because GravitySync is also synchronizing from the primary on a frequent basis, your adlists and other blocking config are already up to date.
  When the primary comes back online, it resumes as the master and retakes control.

• Could you write down the script in video for us to follow? It is too hard to follow your steps in screen! thanks.

• Help>>> After typing docker script
  docker run -dit -p 80:80 -p 53:53/udp -p 53:53/tcp -v $(pwd)/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole -v $(pwd)/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d –name piholetest pihole/pihole:latest

  I got the following error.

  Emulate Docker CLI using podman. Create /etc/containers/nodocker to quiet msg.
  
  Error: short-name "pihole/pihole:latest" did not resolve to an alias and no unqualified-search registries are defined in "/etc/containers/registries.conf"

• Great video. Could you please write a small documentation with the scripts to all of the steps in the video? That would be very helpful to those of us that may make a typo and cause an error that we can't find. Thank you.

• When I try to login to pihole. I can oly logo to RaspAP. Can I run both?

• How do I set up pihole on my UDM pro once configured?

• Hello. I have been watching your videos for a while.

  It could be more helpfull if you provide us a link with the code for the docker compose.

• Hello, I have tried following your tutorial and have gotten stuck in the beginning. I tried running the command:

  docker run -dit -p 80:80 -p 53:53/udp -p 53:53/tcp -v $(pwd)/etc-pihole:etc/pihole -v $(pwd)/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d –name piholetest pihole/pihole:latest

  and I get this error message:

  docker: Error response from daemon: invalid volume specification: '/home/pihole2/etc-pihole:etc/pihole': invalid mount config for type "bind": invalid mount path: 'etc/pihole' mount path must be absolute.

  Can you please let me know what I am doing wrong?

  Thanks for the helpful videos!

• You mentioned your local DNS resolver but didn’t say what it was. Just curious what you’re using to resolve local DNS records on your network.

• Awesome! Thank you!

• A friend installed pi-hole and opnsense in virtualbox which now crashes. I don't know the cause of the problem even when searchingfor the error code. since then I transferred both vm's into vmware andI am trying to find a solution to link pi-hole and opnsense in vmware without starting from the beginning. both vm's work independently without any problem. could you make a small tuto for this kind of problem, please?🙏🙏 thank you very much

• Hi great video, its a long time that im searching for pihole DNS setup. Have you the docker compose on GitHub? Many thanx

• Thanks for the tutorial, where can we find the tutorial's documentation? The complete docker compose script. Thanks once again

• I have recently started watching your videos and I find your content very unique. I'm amazed how your try to solve very specific and real world problems Ops/Admins face. Thank you for the amazing content.
  I just have one suggestion. The audio is not very good. It would awesome if the audio quality is improved a bit. Better mics, acoustic panels would improve the audio quality manifold.
  Thank you once again!

• What if I run win2k19 as my main DNS server already how can I make pihole play nice with that? I want the security of Pihole and would like it to be my recursive DNS server but I want all my records stored on win server.

• What if I run win2k19 as my main DNS server already how can I make pihole play nice with that? I want the security of Pihole and would like it to be my recursive DNS server but I want all my records stored on win server.

• I'm not sure whether the SSL dropdown contains the same url, but when you're blurring the url make sure to also blur the dropdown when you click the certificate. Depending on whether you wanted to hide the domain or the uri. (You're showing the domain in the video)

• Hi sir i hope you will answer me ,opening porte 53 in cloud instance will invite unknown people to use my pihole dns as recursive dns so how i can secure my pihole without vpn allowing traffic just for specific mac addresses , i used iptables but it didn't work

• I'll check this out now. Does this pihole container include unbound? Thanks for sharing. I love your content and format

• Where exactly to install the pi-hole and how to connect it to a specific network vlan? I didn't see any configuration of Pi-hole here, just the installation

• Curious to see if I’m missing anything. I use gravity sync to keep three piholes in sync currently

• This was a really good watch ! Awesome job.

• Hey! I have a question about virtualized firewalls on two different nodes, where one functions as a failover in case the main node is down for maintenance. How do you accomplish this, if you only have access to a single wan connection? Idea for a new video perhaps? Haven’t seen any covering this exact topic.

• Awesome video. Still trying to wrap my head around Traefik 😅

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