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Pi-Hole
I have seen a few posts on twitter recently about people running the Pi-Hole software for network-wide ad blocking. The software was originally built to run on a Rasberry Pi and therefore is very lightweight. I don’t have any Pi’s so i thought lets test it in a VM.
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I spun up an Ubuntu VM from my Image Service on My Nutanix CE server
This process allocated an IP out of the IPAM in Nutanix. Obviously, if you dont have this available you will need to configure a Static address.
Make sure your VM is upto date
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Install Git
sudo apt-get install git
Install Pi-Hole
git clone –depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole cd Pi-hole/automated install/ bash basic-install.sh
Input your sudo password and hit Ok! the installer should run and you will be given a few basic options.
Next thing is to choose your favorite DNS provider. I went for custom and then Cloudflare 1.1.1.1
I allowed listening on IPv4 and v6 and left the network settings already applied to the VM and enabled the web interface .
You get a final confirmation page and then your done!!
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