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Openwrt has DNS ad-blocking built in which works just as well as pi-hole. It simply doesn't have the monitoring of what is being blocked but it is rarely needed
by zaro 7y ago
Openwrt has DNS ad-blocking built in which works just as well as pi-hole. It simply doesn't have the monitoring of what is being blocked but it is rarely needed anyway.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking
- inyorgroove 7y agopfSense also has pfBlocker-ng[1] which can also be used for this purpose. [1] https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocker.html https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocke...
- theandrewbailey 7y agoIf your router hardware is sufficient enough, OpenWRT supports QEMU, so you can run Pi-Hole in that: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu_host https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/qemu_host
- pimeys 7y agoI'm running it in an LCX container on OpenWRT. Better to have an external disk connected for the container so the logging will not burn the internal storage too fast.