As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive in due course.) Please see our previous post for some highlights of this release Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Fix status of blocked special domains when they are in FTL’s DNS cache by @DL6ER in #1383 Revert “Remove…
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We are fast approaching another release (soon™), and we’ve been very busy since the last one. There are a number of smaller changes, but we thought it would be nice to share some of the bigger/more important changes ahead of time, so that they are not missed in amongst the release notes. Saying Goodbye to…
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As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Check struct sizes on the CI instead of during compile-time by @DL6ER in #1329 Add query type “Blocked (special domain)” by @DL6ER in #1338 Fix for theoretical one byte buffer overflow by @DL6ER in #1342 Log reply forcing…
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As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Fix negative “others” in Upstream Servers pie chart by @DL6ER in #1305 Update SQLite to v3.38.0 by @DL6ER in #1307 Reload blocking mode independently of incoming queries by @DL6ER in #1310 Replace reference to hard-coded default GCinterval value…
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As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Update Sqlite3 engine to 3.37.2 by @DL6ER in #1276 Enable history and auto-completion for embedded SQLite3 engine by @DL6ER in #1282 Optimize queries table by @DL6ER in #1255 Use embedded SQLite3 engine for the tests by @DL6ER in #1283 Add others…
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As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Add human-readable table output mode by @DL6ER in #1262 Return DNS port on “>dns-port” telnet command by @DL6ER in #1264 Fix cache statistics by @DL6ER in #1267 Sync master -> development by @DL6ER in #1266 Improve Linux capabilities check by @DL6ER in #1270 Update…
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As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: What’s Changed Extend pihole -vv by @DL6ER in #1229 Print FTL version when calling the built in sqlite function only in interactive mode by @yubiuser in #1226 Compute reply time also for queries which failed upstream by @DL6ER in #1234…
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The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is an Internet standard that adds security mechanisms to the Domain Name System (DNS). It ensures both the authenticity and integrity of the DNS data. From FTL v5.9 on, Pi-hole shows and analyzes the internally generated DNSSEC queries needed to build the chain-to-trust. This feature is enabled by…
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As always, please read through the changelog before updating with pihole -up. (A new tag for docker image will arrive shortly.) Pi-hole FTL changes: Prevent race collisions when parsing FTL config file #1222 Fix incorrect response times for complex CNAMEs #1213 Improve CI tests #1212 Ensure compatibility with alpine 3.13+ #1210 Support dynamic linking as fallback #1204 (thanks @pemensik) Add PIHOLE_PTR=HOSTNAMEFQDN option #1202 Tweak rate-limiting #1199…
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Using OPNsense DHCP with Pi-hole network ad-blocking NOTE: This guide is likely outdated and based on an older OPNsense version. The ideas and concepts may still work but the actual implementation may/will not. One of the lesser known features of Pi-hole is the ability to see MAC and IP addresses from external servers. This feature…
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