The original post: /r/pihole by /u/-PromoFaux- on 2017-02-01 20:21:30.

Welcome to /r/pihole, where your adventures into network wide adblocking start!

Before posting a new thread, you may want to check out the following:

  • Subreddit Search: As mentioned here, Reddit will only return matches of titles and self-text (the text of the original post), but not comments. So, do be sure to check out the latest stickied release announcement thread just in case.
  • Our Discourse Forums: Many things are covered here, and we even have a German Language Subforum staffed by one of our native-speaking German developers.
  • Pi-hole issues on Github: Pi-hole Core, Admin Dashboard and the FTL Engine.
  • Having issues with, or have found a bug in a new release? Check the stickied new release thread to see if someone has already reported it. If not, then please create a top level comment in that thread.

There’s some other things to keep in mind:

  • Pi-hole does not block every single ad, but it’ll do its hardest to ensure that everything that is blocked stays that way.
  • Ad lists are maintained by people outside of the Pi-hole project. This means that it’s possible for ads to get missed, and certain legitimate websites be accidentally blocked!
  • There’s a wide range of hardware used for routers, and an even wider range of hardware that you can run Pi-hole on. We try our best to support Pi-hole on as much hardware as possible, but as always, your milage may vary!
  • There is one rule we ask you never break: Do NOT advertise your own public-facing instance of Pi-hole, or any other DNS server. DNS security is hard, and anything but the most secured DNS servers will contribute to a DNS amplification attack. In some cases, your ISP will even block your Internet connection!
  • Using a Pi-hole as a DNS server has the ability of tying your browsing history to your device. Be aware of this when using a Pi-hole you don’t have complete control over.

Our community does a wonderful job of answering questions and helping users out, and personally, we like to think that it also does a good job of moderating itself through the voting system and reporting functions. Whilst we try and answer as many posts here as possible, it can get tedious if there’s something that has already been asked many times, and could have been solved with a little time searching for a solution!

Finally, remember your reddiqutte: the people you’re speaking to are also human, and have a wide range of technical aptitudes.

Cheers, your friendly mods.