The Pi Hole project adds an entire new level of performance and security to our home network. Powered by Docker and a Raspberry PI I can now block all unwanted Ads and Metrics network wide. By Brian Christner.
The author used Raspberry Pi project Pi Hole as the gatekeeper to his home network.
The Pi Hole answers your computer’s DNS queries and if it is a domain on the blacklist, it sends the request to the Pi Web server. This Web server just serves up a blank page. So instead of loading the ad from the real domain, the blank page from the Pi is downloaded, thus “blocking” the ad or metric.
The article then describes:
- Installing Pi Hole – everything in a Docker container
- Pi Hole in Operation
- Review after 1 month in operation
The Pi has been chugging along at 8% memory utilization, and the network is considerably faster when surfing the web. Statistically speaking author’s household averaged 15% of queries blocked and a spike over a bad weather weekend of 30% blocked. Nice one!
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