DNS over HTTPS in Pihole with Docker

There’s a saying that goes: “Show me your friends, I’ll tell you who you are”. A slight variation of this is: “Show me the websites you visit, I’ll tell you who you are”. A lot can be learned about an individual just by examining the websites they visit, the search queries they run, and the apps they use on a regular basis. A trove of information about a user’s online activity can be gleaned from their DNS traffic....

February 15, 2022 · 7 min

Pihole DHCP and Docker Bridge Network

Pihole is a great tool to protect your home network from trackers and annoying ads. It can be deployed either directly on a server or in a Docker container. I personally lean toward using Docker whenever possible for the flexibility and isolation it provides. Services deployed in Docker containers are significantly easier to migrate than raw installations and Pihole is no exception. Running Pihole on Docker is pretty straightforward, but things start to get a bit complicated when it comes to enabling DHCP - using Pihole to serve DHCP requests....

May 25, 2021 · 7 min