Pi-hole

Community Cluster area mesh

admin October 19, 2023, 10:02am 1

Introduction

Both Pi-hole and Adguard Home are supported open source solution for providing first level DNS and DHCP function to Area Mesh.

Some Pi-hole advantages over Adguard Home

Group Management - Group management - Pi-hole documentation
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admin January 19, 2024, 3:45am 2

Pi-hole

Web SIte: https://pi-hole.net/
Documentation: https://docs.pi-hole.net/
Forum: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/
Source: GitHub - pi-hole/pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements

Restarting

After configuration change
pihole restartdns

MAC Address Filtering

In the file
/etc/dnsmasq.d/03-custom-DHCP.conf

Insert the following lines

dhcp-ignore=tag:!known
dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,set:known
dhcp-host=11:22:33:44:55:66,set:known

Reference:

DHCP server MAC-address filtering - Help - Pi-hole Userspace