How Pi-hole Works Pi-hole acts as a forwarding DNS server, which means if it doesn’t know where a domain is, it has to forward your query to another server that does. When you install Pi-hole, it knows where the ad-serving domains are (because you tell it), so it doesn’t forward those requests. But it doesn’t…
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Patrons got first dibs, but there are still plenty of coins available. These coins are high quality, colored, and textured. Check out the product page for more information. Enjoy! Proceeds from the sales will be used to further develop Pi-hole.
We launched our Patreon page a few days ago. Patrons of Pi-hole get several benefits: in addition to the rewards already granted by becoming a patron, you’ll also get a flair on our user forums, and early access to things such as first access to our collector’s coins. Patreon charges you on the first of…
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Become a Patron! Our Patreon page is up and ready. You can support our project in exchange for some rewards. If you have feedback on the reward levels let us know but we hope you like what we’ve put together for you!
Separate from Patreon: Collectable Coins Will Be For Sale These are 2 inch metal coins with color and texture. Only 300 have been made (seven of which have gone to the developers) and each one has a sequential number printed on it. If these are a success, we will be designing and selling more coins,…
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Pi-hole has grown quite a bit since we last explained how to get support for our software, but our official support forums remain true: Discourse GitHub Reddit Twitter These are the four areas where we offer official support. You may see us around in some other places on the Web, but the above four areas…
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Pi-hole has traditionally returned a blank HTML page in place of advertisements. An alternative method is to return NXDOMAIN—no such domain. This is a behaviour you asked us to implement and we have listened. To use it, you’ll need to be running the FTLDNS beta (pihole -up if you’re already on it): echo “FTLDNS” |…
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We’re launching a Patreon page soon, which allows you to get rewards for supporting us. Take a look at this explainer video if you are unfamiliar with it. We want your feedback on the reward levels. Please let us know what you like, what you don’t, or what you like to see. $1/month Patron Flair…
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We have implemented GNU Extended Regular Expressions for blocking domains into FTLDNS (as used by popular tools such as egrep (or grep -E …), awk, and emacs). To try it, you need to be participating in the FTLDNS beta test (see here for more details). This is a new feature and we invite you to…
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Staying Free Pi-hole will remain free in both meanings of the word: free of charge and open source. We know the survey spooked many of your fears and you may have considered several worst case scenarios. We heard you loud and clear, you don’t want us to charge money for Pi-hole and we won’t. In…
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