Ad Blocking DNS Server Test

Anthro

Anthro

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Hi guys, installed PiHole on a South African VPS.. blocking about 2.6mil advert domains.
Use this as your DNS to stress test it for me if you can !
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Saw this:
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Also, my web browsing is a lot slower now. Going to change back to 8.8.8.8 to confirm if it is DNS or just the Neotel 5mbps fibre acting up again...
 
hmm okay will take a look,
I do block display.mybroadband.co.za which is where they host most the adverts
Ive turned off the blocking for now, tell me if the resolution is quicker ?
 
Why a VPS? I have it running on a raspberry pi and its super quick. Don't even notice a slowdown.
 
HeftyCrab said:
Why a VPS? I have it running on a raspberry pi and its super quick. Don't even notice a slowdown.
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Have been running a Pi for about 6 months now, so wanted to expand and see whats up and,
Im always tinkering :) wanted to host one for my friends with some decent caching and blocking.
 
Anthro said:
Have been running a Pi for about 6 months now, so wanted to expand and see whats up and,
Im always tinkering :) wanted to host one for my friends with some decent caching and blocking.
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What you can also try is point the Pihole to OpenDNS. You can create a free home account, and flag what you want to block, incase Pihole misses some new malicious link, etc.
 
HeftyCrab said:
What you can also try is point the Pihole to OpenDNS. You can create a free home account, and flag what you want to block, incase Pihole misses some new malicious link, etc.
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Busy doing that at the moment , just trying to figure out how I am going to verify the damn mail lol
 
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ThatGuy_ZA said:
Good work!

I've got two pi-holes at home but I was wondering why you're only blocking 36 domains? I've got >100 000 domains on my block list.
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Was tinkering to see what may be the issue, at first I was sitting at about 2.6mil domains, wanted to see if the amount of domains was the cause for speed issue or what.
I will up the list as I go along.
Q: Why 2 Ph-Holes ? redundancy or load balancing?
With regards to the display.mybroadband.co.za, it seems that is also where they host news - i blocked that as it showed adverts, so will find another way

Thor, with regards to Youtube, they are clever - in hosting the advert on the Youtube.com domain - so its a slippery slope to block
 
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Nice idea but a word of warning, you should really not use a DNS server you don't absolutely trust.
It's easy enough for anyone in control of the server to redirect your banking traffic to a fake site.

Not suggesting you are, Anthro, just pointing out the obvious for anyone wanting to do this - it's an enormous security risk.

So those who understand this and know what they are doing, feel have at it. For testing purposes, no biggie. Don't use it for day to day.
 
static_sa said:
Has anyone managed to block YouTube ads using Pi-hole?
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Very difficult, because they host it in many times on the YT site.
Adblock plus (and more recently Ive been using Adlblock Genesis Plus) filters out the url patterns and blocks nicely
 
Anthro said:
Very difficult, because they host it in many times on the YT site.
Adblock plus (and more recently Ive been using Adlblock Genesis Plus) filters out the url patterns and blocks nicely
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I have just added googleadservices.com to the whitelist and it seems to have gotten rid of the continues ad I was seeing.

Hopefully all their ads start with that domain :D
 
Anthro said:
Very difficult, because they host it in many times on the YT site.
Adblock plus (and more recently Ive been using Adlblock Genesis Plus) filters out the url patterns and blocks nicely
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Yup and it has gotten more difficult since the now get their ads directly injected in the video stream.
 
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