Local Pi Hole in new Terminal app?

census5280

Heyo there,

I was wondering if it is possible To create some kind of local adblocking with the new terminal app. Something like a pi hole shouldn't use too much power.

Would this be possible? The benefits could be that you don't need to trust a third party DNS for blocking.

Thanks!

vincente213

census5280 pihole is essentially a self hosted DNS server. As such, it needs to regularly update its entries from an upstream DNS server. Your phone actually runs like a DNS server in that regard: it caches your DNS results for the same period of time as any DNS server.

Running a pihole locally does nothing, since the local DNS cache and your pihole DNS cache will be the same, which makes the pihole DNS cache useless.