/pihole-adlists

Personal Pi-hole adlists and settings. Based on lists by Energized Protection.

Personal Raspberry Pi 4 and Pi-hole settings

🔹 Raspberry Pi OS Lite

Install

Download and install Raspberry Pi Imager:

  • Select Raspberry Pi OS Lite
  • Select storage
  • Click Settings and set up
    • Disable overscan
    • Set hostname
    • Enable SSH
    • Set username and password
    • Configure wifi
    • Set locale settings
    • Play sound when finished
    • Eject media when finished
    • Enable telemetry
  • Click Write

Configuration

Connect to your device:

ssh username@raspberrypi.local

Set up Raspberry Pi OS:

sudo raspi-config
  • set locale as en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8

Disable all interfaces, sound, and video:

sudo nano /boot/config.txt
# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=off

# Automatically load overlays for detected cameras
camera_auto_detect=0

# Automatically load overlays for detected DSI displays
display_auto_detect=0

# WiFi and Bluetooth
dtoverlay=disable-wifi
dtoverlay=disable-bt

# HDMI
# On the Raspberry Pi 4, setting hdmi_blanking=1 will not cause the HDMI output to be switched off,
# since this feature has not yet been implemented
hdmi_blanking=1
max_framebuffers=0

# RAM to the CPU, only for console using
gpu_mem=1

Disable IPv6:

sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
# Disable IPv6
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.disable_ipv6 = 1

🔹 Pi-hole

Install

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | sudo bash

Configuration

Use wizard and set up.

🔹 pihole-updatelists

Install

sudo apt-get install php-cli sqlite3 php-sqlite3 php-intl php-curl && \
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacklul/pihole-updatelists/master/install.sh | sudo bash

Configuration

Clear all preinstalled Pi-hole ad-lists:

sudo sqlite3 /etc/pihole/gravity.db "delete from domainlist where type=0;" # whitelist
sudo sqlite3 /etc/pihole/gravity.db "delete from domainlist where type=1;" # blacklist
sudo sqlite3 /etc/pihole/gravity.db "delete from domainlist where type=2;" # regex whitelist
sudo sqlite3 /etc/pihole/gravity.db "delete from domainlist where type=3;" # regex blacklist
sudo sqlite3 /etc/pihole/gravity.db "delete from adlist where enabled=0;"  # disabled adlists
sudo sqlite3 /etc/pihole/gravity.db "delete from adlist where enabled=1;"  # enabled adlists

Set new ad-lists:

sudo nano /etc/pihole-updatelists.conf
ADLISTS_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denis-g/rpi4-pihole-settings/master/adlist.txt"
WHITELIST_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EnergizedProtection/unblock/master/basic/formats/domains.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/whitelist/master/domains/whitelist.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denis-g/rpi4-pihole-settings/master/whitelist.txt"
REGEX_WHITELIST_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denis-g/rpi4-pihole-settings/master/whitelist_regex.txt"
BLACKLIST_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denis-g/rpi4-pihole-settings/master/blacklist.txt"
REGEX_BLACKLIST_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/master/regex.list https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denis-g/rpi4-pihole-settings/master/blacklist_regex.txt"

🔹 DNSCrypt

Install

Copy URL to latest ARM release from this page:

sudo wget https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/releases/download/2.1.0/dnscrypt-proxy-linux_arm-2.1.0.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf ./dnscrypt-proxy-linux_arm-2.1.0.tar.gz
sudo rm dnscrypt-proxy-linux_arm-2.1.0.tar.gz

sudo mv ./linux-arm ./dnscrypt-proxy
sudo cp ./dnscrypt-proxy/example-dnscrypt-proxy.toml ./dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml

Configuration

Set servers and port for service:

sudo nano ./dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml
server_names = ['cloudflare-family', 'cloudflare']

# don't use 53 or 5353 port
listen_addresses = ['127.0.0.1:54']

Install and start service:

sudo ./dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy -service install && \
sudo ./dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy -service start

Set service as custom DNS on Pi-hole admin panel - Settings > DNS:

Custom 1 (IPv4):
127.0.0.1#54

🔹 Update system

sudo apt update && \
sudo apt upgrade && \
sudo apt clean && \
sudo apt autoclean && \
sudo apt autoremove && \
sudo pihole-updatelists --update && \
sudo pihole-updatelists && \
sudo pihole -up && \
sudo rpi-update && \
sudo reboot