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It's network wide. Anyone joining your network and being given the PiHole as its DNS server means it gets the ad blocking benefits. It also updates the hosts
by muppetman 8y ago
It's network wide. Anyone joining your network and being given the PiHole as its DNS server means it gets the ad blocking benefits.
It also updates the hosts files itself on a regular basis, you don't have to remember to do it as a manual task.
It gives you a nice webgui to show you what devices are accessing what hosts, how often they try to access them (at least, how often they request their DNS name) and has different modes of blocking (vs a hosts file has to return 127.0.0.1)