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Errors and omissions in the OpenVPN pihole guide

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HarvsG commented

Is it me or had this guide only just moved to https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn, I swear I was using it last week in a github wiki format, or was that a rehost?

I've noticed a few things.

  1. In the firewall config guide, the bit on dropping https connections for improved speed isn't there (it was on the previous guide I used)
  2. In the firewall section there is nothing about how to save the firewall config and load it at startup (I think there was in the previous guide)
  3. In the VPN + Lan config section there is an inappropriate html tag in one of the code blocks push "dhcp-option DNS <b>192.168.2.123</b>"
DL6ER commented

It appears something got lost in transmission, probably because @PromoFaux copied the guide over at some earlier point and I missed to fill in all gaps.

In the firewall config guide, the bit on dropping https connections for improved speed isn't there (it was on the previous guide I used)

You want to DROP or REJECT them? I suppose the latter (the former is actually bad), and yes, we could re-add this (although the advice of adding this rule seemingly didn't help everyone)

In the firewall section there is nothing about how to save the firewall config and load it at startup (I think there was in the previous guide)

I don't think so, it will be different on the various operating systems, but we could recommend at least which package to install on Debian-type systems

In the VPN + Lan config section there is an inappropriate html tag in one of the code blocks push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.2.123"

I will remove this

HarvsG commented

During the DNS over HTTPS tutorial the Docs suggest entering in the local DNS server 127.0.0.1#5053 in the GUI the formatted custom DNS box does not allow the entering of # or sections of more than 3 digits

PromoFaux commented

Yeah, you'll need to be on Pi-hole 4.0 (Currently FTLDNS beta) As stated on the front page of the docs site:
https://docs.pi-hole.net/

HarvsG commented

Ahh, I didn't realise that was for all tutorials, I edited the /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf manually and that worked. How stable is Pi-Hole 4.0? Is it worth switching?

PromoFaux commented

Feeling pretty confident with it right now, but there are possible still a couple of things we haven't caught... there always are! But I've been running it with no issues personally. YMMV :)