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Comment by rhtgrg | Hacker News Reader

What is your pihole equivalent/alternative?

So pihole is just some nice tooling around dnsmasq to feed it a bunch of domains to block, but if you don't care about that you can just have have a script download a hosts file and load it into plain dnsmasq (or whatever DNS server you like; with dnsmasq use `addn-hosts=/etc/hosts.d`). Bonus: lots of routers already use dnsmasq, so you literally stick that line in the config file and populate the hosts file(s) and bam, free adblock.

Wow, thanks! I had no idea this type of thing was possible these days. I was about to ask how you'd make that hosts file but found this in my router admin panel: 'Remote Console enables SSH access into the router from a WAN connection using the modems WAN IP address.'

I do have a pihole set up and I like the web interface for it, but I look forward to playing around with this for fun.

In fairness, this is way less feature rich - no statistics, no GUI, no "temporarily disable" button, but yeah for plain DNS adblock it works:)

> Remote Console enables SSH access into the router from a WAN connection using the modems WAN IP address

That sounds like it allows SSH from the public internet; I would try SSHing to its private IP with that off. YMMV.

I just shared that because that's how I learned I could SSH into my router at all. I'll be very careful around this stuff.

Good show:) Have fun!

These days? If anything, these methods are increasingly mitigated by new functionality from your friendly global technology giant such as dns-over-https.

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