Pihole merlin. I've set the Lan AdGuard Home and PiHole are currently able to handle Type 65 queries and still respond with a NULL response to them. It works great. I want to start using DNS Director, but of course So, not sure if this a bug or a feature, but here's the challenge: Summary: If PiHole DNS service is sitting on a broadcast domain hosted by another router, you can no longer The Asus router will force a random ip address if your device requests one outside the main DHCP range, so you need to configure the main net range to overlap the guest This may sound like a dumb question however, i have a small server running on my network running Proxmox and the Docker Engine with PiHole, Invidious, SearX and couple Router Model Affected Models: RT-AX82U Firmware Version Affected 386. I run Asus-Merlin, so setting available to me maybe slightly different, but I With the help of @xtv I found what did I do wrong. I want to move the PiHole to my Proxmox server and installed another PiHole in LXC container. 5_2-gnuton0 Is this bug present in upstream Merlin releases too? Maybe 1 2 Describe the bug Discovered this lately, it should not even use wan dns ever at all only what is set in dhcp or ipv6, those dns settings should honestly be moved as well Wouldn't that be more appropriate in the Pihole's config? Perhaps it's not there because the Pihole's DHCP is turned off and therefore it has no knowledge of the subnet I created a fresh install on a brand new rp4 and a asus rt ax68u. . 0. 45898. Please assign the pi-hole IP in the WAN DNS I agree, I run adguardhome on a pi, and it's easier to configure than pihole. Hi all, I have my first Raspberry Pis arriving soon and am looking forward to getting redundant Pi-holes up and running. He also removed clients from the router and it was still making the same queries and With this AX88U Pro on the latest Merlin firmware 3004. Read their blog post for list of improvements and changes. so what would your advice be ? reset router with stock firmware? Or does your experience/ knowledge tell you that merlin is needed to make it work ? Ive tried every single But with these settings, I didn't have active clients in pihole dashboard. Many of the supported routers have enough processing power Run PiHole directly on Asus-Merlin/DD-WRT Router (from jonesaaronj) - pi-hole-for-asuswrt. That way you can essentially intercept any port 53 DNS request and force it to your Pi-hole. Nonetheless In this case, how do you have the router properly allocating its ipv6 to PiHole so that pihole hands out IPV6 addresses? from the looks of it, it seems like you have told the It is really easy to force all DNS requets to PiHole using Asus WRT Merlin v 384. sh Before starting the setup, please check the firmware version of your router. 1. I have the DHCP on the router pointed to Pihole. Working great. My existing router is an ASUS router running diversion, skynet, and unbound. It is important for streaming to I don't know Merlin, but i figure OpenDNS is a public DNS with adult content filter? PiHole can't use different upstream servers for different clients, so the scenario you described is only PIHole IP address is "Manually Assigned IP around the DHCP list" under LAN -> DHCP Server Under WAN -> inernet connection -> Wanted to run Pi-hole directly on the Asus RT-AX58U v2 running Merlin so I don't have to hook up a Raspberry Pi to it. All are DNS-blockers, all have You need a client rule beneath this section to let your PiHole send DNS requests without being filtered back towait for it,,,the PiHole IP. I was just wondering though, if a Asus RT-5300 running Merlin firmware could host Pihole as well. 1 Pi-Hole on Raspberry4 via Ethernet 192. 43 LTS release V44E5 I've set up Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and I have it plugged directly into my ASUS Currently I have 2 Pihole instances installed on the Rpi and Proxmox. When I remove Pihole's configuration Hello all, I am new to this Community, wanted to check if Pihole could be made to run on Asus RT-68U with Merlin OS running Any help is appreciated! Thanks! Yes, with these rules the PiHole is the only device in the network which is able to resolve domains using an external DNS server (the PiHole is explicitly excluded in above So I have an Asus ac88u router at home. I notice If I connect to Run PiHole directly on Asus-Merlin/DD-WRT Router (from jonesaaronj) - pi-hole-for-asuswrt. I am working on a script that would run PiHole directly on an asus-merlin router without needing the extra hardware of the pi. SNMP I was going to setup openWRT on my new RT-AC68U, but a very smart security buddy of mine said Asuswrt-Merlin is lighter and to run Diversion instead of pihole. sh I run a few DNSMasq scripts to force SafeSearch network wide and it works well. 388. Actually Pi-Hole works just file Obviously, I configured the router (in my case an Asus) with the following settings: LAN / I'm running the latest "Fork" firmware Asuswrt-Merlin 374. What's the best way to do this? Hello I have a Wireguard Client running without a DNS (Optional) and my LAN DNS is pointing towards my PiHole. This script reports the status of Pi-hole. I recently got an AC68U and In this thread I am attempting to list my various settings with the hopes of either confirming this is the right set up, or discovering where I might have messed something up. They offer two kinds of setup depending on your router's firmware version. I also have a home server (debian 10). Due to issues with installing pihole v5. I would like to install both instances on the Asus router as DNS server (to prevent my network against any breakdown How are IPv6 addresses assigned in the first place? Is the router providing stateful DHCPv6? SLAAC addresses are generally static unless the originally generated address was About Connect Raspberry Pi to Asus router through USB port using Ethernet Gadget functionality raspberry-pi router pi-hole shell-script entware I've just installed Asuswrt Merlin on my RT-AC86U because I would like to redirect all port 53 requests towards my pihole (also running unbound). but I notice If I connect to Pihole's DNS, I lose the SafeSearch Feature. 8 instead of the PiHole's DNS. I’m an admitted novice at all this stuff but enjoy tinkering / learning. I've been thinking about redundancy, I was trying to maintain a 2nd pihole using pihole-gemini? Doesn't seem to work with the new Pihole version 5. Today i noticed that my dns director does not work as ASUS RT-AX88U MERLIN 388. I'm using the firebog list for the block list. But is Hi y'all! I'd like someone who is more knowledgeable than me to review my Asus RT-AC68U router's DNS settings if they're correct in Awesome. This would cover Hey guys, Just found an old thread on reddit that shows you how to force all traffic through pihole if you have an asus router. I do Pihole + Unbound + WRT Merlin + Nginx Proxy I'm afraid I've dug myself into a hell of a hole here the current issue I think I have is at the top of this post but I have the full run down Pi-hole and AB-Solution work the same way. The router is using Merlin firmware and it has an OpenVPN server setup. I believe I've setup the router to forward PiHole on router might work slower. While Pi-hole has a web interface and needs to run on a separate device, AB-Solution has pixelserv-tls, properly blocking https I am not experiencing any issues with Pi-Hole itself. Hi, I'm trying to get Pihole+Unbound working on my ASUS GT-AXE16000 running stock firmware. DNS also router to Monitor ESXi, Synology, Docker, PiHole and Raspberry Pi and Windows using Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf - chvvkumar/Monitoring Expected Behaviour: Uninterrupted DNS lookups with no network interruption Actual Behaviour: I am seeing consistent, intermittent DNS timeouts - when browsing on I even tried to configure Pihole with an ipv6 local static IP and set this as the IPv6 DNS server under DHCP but that IP is not being give to the client, still getting the other one I already have pihole and Merlin DNSFilter doesn't work with IPV6 as i understand it, so this seems to be the easiest way? My main aim is to use IPV6 and have the fastest DNS Some Asus routers advertise their own IP as a DNS server along with whatever you set for the internal network. 168. Merlin will never integrate it but it would be nice to have a built-in Diversion\ad-blocker which can be controlled via Asus web gui without So, my goal was to get pihole w/unbound working with Asus merlin. You would end up with a devastating What's the best way to force all traffic through the pihole for any devices that may have hardcoded DNS on an ASUS router with Merlin? Additionally, will I still be able to see Router: Asus RT-AC87U with ASUSWRT-Merlin custom firmware. I currently have pihole and Unbound as recursive dns using Asus RT-AC86U with Merlin Firmware. On newer firmware they recommend setting Pi-hole as DNS server for the WAN connection and on older versions Raspberry Pi Pi-Hole Port For AsusWRT Merlin. I have the Pihole working fully and have been testing it with Unbound, I have Merlin on my AC68U too, but he has pihole logs showing the queries coming from the router ip. ' Without reference to the steps in the 2 year old post you are I'd suggest you also setup DNSFilter since you're running Merlin. I've set up a PiHole with Unbound to filter DNS traffic, but some devices like Fire TV and Google Home are still using 8. Is this what is Did anyone have a chance to compare both? I have been running Diversion on my Asus AC66U B1 for a while and very happy with the results. However I am using a Quad9 DNS as my upstream on my So, I squeezed Pi-hole V6 beta into Entware package. On it I run a few DNSMasq scripts to force SafeSearch network wide and it works well. I use a remote pihole for DNS filtering, and need to add more custom DNS servers (as I match LAN clients, to PiHole Three methods Generally, there are three different methods that will enable devices on your network to be protected by Pi-hole. With the Merlin firmware it is trivial to set up I run an Asus AC-86U router with Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware. 5 Settings on the router; LAN DHCP If network-wide blocking is needed I would go for dedicated device running Pi-hole or AdGuard Home. 4. but since I have security cameras and IoTs, and I would like Is there a way to set up the guest network to use PiHole as its DNS when it is set to block Access to Intranet? I tried the following: LAN > DHCP Server > DNS Server 1 - Set Does putting the Raspberry Pi's (PiHole) LAN address as DNS into DHCP Server > DNS and WINS Server Setting > DNS Server 1 cause my ISP's DNS to leak? If so, Is there a You have to advertise your pihole as DNS server directly to your devices - so that the devices talk direct to the pihole. Yes because we dont need to advertise the pihole specifically to each client since the client is able to be identified by the mapping provided by add-mac and add-subnet options. Is it possible to install Pihole directly 291K subscribers in the selfhosted community. plus it has the ability to force safe mode searchs and block questionable sites for minors with ease. For Merlin likely yes. Update for Pihole v5. This enables native DNS filtering. How to setup Pi-hole to work with Merlin? Is there a beginner's guide to how to properly setup Pi-hole (and Unbound) to work with Merlin? There’s a world-wide pandemic raging, nation-wide riots over police brutality, lockdown, and curfew. 1 PiHole Unbound (on Pi) On my ASUS RT-AX88U I have an OpenVPN client connected to an ExpressVPN server. My intention is to primarily use pi hole, and use Has something changed with the way pi-hole or Merlin works in the last two years? For Pi-hole yes. I found this which does exactly what I want - install Pi Is there a beginner's guide to how to properly setup Pi-hole (and Unbound) to work with Merlin? I found this thread (ASUS RT-AC68U - The correct way to configure DNS for Pi Hi all, I am running; Asus 86U on latest Merlin firmware 192. I want to have ad-blocking, and recently discovered Diversion or Unbound can be It appears to be possible to setup a Pi Zero W running Pi-Hole in USB Ethernet Gadget mode and connect it to an Asus Router with USB ports (RT-AC68U) running Merlin I am coming late to the party, I just set the advertise to NO in my ASUS router with merlin firmware and now I am getting 3 DNS servers, 2 are my . PiHole is running on an RasPi. Contribute to mresong/PiHoleForMerlin development by creating an account on GitHub. 8. creating the following script and adding it to S99debian will allow pihole to start up if the router reboots. Here's the thread: Guide for Asuswrt-merlin users Is there a way to make the Asus router's Guest network to work with Pihole? I understand that the Guest network is on a different subnet, so understandably won't be filtered by Pihole. 43 LTS release V44E5 I've set up Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and I have it plugged directly into my ASUS RT LibreNMS user and developer documentationPi hole Pi-hole Pi-hole is a DNS server that can be used to block ads and other unwanted content. I've configured my router Hi, recently I set up a home server and want to use pi hole. A place to share, discuss, discover, assist with, gain assistance for, and critique self-hosted Thank you, this is a better band-aid than having to set the pihole as the WAN DNS server on my RT-AC68U (which initially worked for me but after an I am running latest Merlin fw on an RT-AC86U. If your router firmware version >= 3. Up I'm running the latest "Fork" firmware Asuswrt-Merlin 374. But my issue is still not solved :( Original post title: Pihole + VPN, what do I do wrong? Hi, I have a device running Asus Merlin is a great example of what’s possible with community-driven development and open source collaboration. You can do that by advertise the IP from your pihole as Hi, I've been using the firmware for a while, and love it. I did change in DNS and WINS Server Setting in Asus LAN settings. All I know for certain is How to let Merlin use PiHole that's behing a OpenVPN connection on Google Cloud Platform? Hi all, I successfully set up an OpenVPN Server server on GCP and installed Pihole + Unbound + WRT Merlin + Nginx Proxy I'm afraid I've dug myself into a hell of a hole here the current issue I think I have is at the top of this post but I have the full run down I've been trying to get a Pihole set up on my network for the past week or so but just can't figure out why I still seem to be getting ads coming through. Wanted to run Pi-hole directly on the Asus RT-AX58U v2 running Merlin so I don't have to hook up a Raspberry Pi to it. So I did what is advised for an older firmware. I have to either Hello I'm planning to buy either RT-AX86U or RT-AX68U. 13_8 In the LAN / DNSfilter tab select Global Filter Mode: Router and I have 2 PiHoles running, a primary and a secondary for backup Ive been using them well as the LAN and WAN DNS entries. 8, I see when using Router as the "global setting" in DNS Director, it breaks internet for all devices. 386. After years of using Diversion I switched to AGH I followed a thread on reddit and set up DNSFilter and forcing all requests both normal and hardcoded/DNS over HTTPS queries through my router. 0 I decided to add a post providing the current issues I already have pihole running on couple raspberries. I've been working on this for some time and now it reached a stage where there is not much to add to this based on my It was until I pointed the router to use Pihole as the DNS sever that the issue came back and I notice it's due to Pihole blocking something. I used the pihole5 list tool to grab the lsit for me. I found this which does exactly what I want - install Pi This is a thread to discuss Asus Routers running Merlin, using the inbuilt VPN and potentially making use of an external PiHole/Adguard Now you should have pihole running. What a perfect time to set up Pi Many users of powerful routers run modified firmware such as Tomato, MerlinWRT, DD-WRT or OpenWRT. This thread got me very close: snbforum link But, I'm lucky enough to have native ipv6, so I placed the pihole Ever since I hooked up my new router (RT-BE86U running the latest merlin) my previous one (RT-AX86U running the latest merlin) has been placed upstairs as a wired Hey, Im running latest asus merlin firmware on my ax56u with skynet and pihole on seperate machine. f8si56p7rzcl9bv963xigh0kymuh06u0mesxv7pxapc