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Does Pi-Hole disrupt anything important? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I ordered a Raspberry Pi 5 so I have a Pi 3 that’s about to be redundant. I haven’t used Pi-Hole so I was thinking it’d be good for that but I’m curious if there’s any downsides for users. Are sites blocked if you dont whitelist them? That sort of thing.

Basically, I’m not worried about me having issues but I’m worried about a maintenance headache if friends and family can’t access things.

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Nope, no issues.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

Depending on how you configure it you can run into issues with sites and apps that use trackers.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I've seen it cause issues when you try and use Google Analytics console. You can add white list entries to groups and then add devices to that group. Works well.

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Just make sure you have port 53 and 80 open. I recently had some problems myself trying to get Pi-Hole up and running. I already had dnsmasq taking up port 53 for a wifi hotspot, which conflicts with Pi-Hole's own DNS. Aside from that, hosting any websites can also conflict with Pi-Hole's frontend.

If you aren't using your Pi 3 for anything yet then I already assume this shouldn't be a problem though.

Good luck and have fun setting up your Pi-Hole!

[–] captsneeze@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I can’t think of any problems I’ve faced in over 3 years. I have an app on my phone that I can use to temporarily disable my Pi-hole if I need to do some testing, but I don’t know if I’ve ever had a situation where the Pi-hole was the source of a problem. Definitely not a maintenance headache. I run an update on it every now and then, but only because I see a notification that there is one, not because there’s something going wrong.

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