Welcome back.
Finally, we can start configuring and using our Pi‑hole.
Let's get started.
In this section, we're going to configure our routers to work with the Pi‑hole.
We'll need to make a few changes to do this.
Then, we'll configure our Pi‑hole to work for our routers to manage DNS traffic.
After that, we'll add some lists to block,
set up a group and manage some clients, then block some domains.
Let's log in to our Pi‑hole.
You'll need to open up a web browser.
Type in the IP address of your Pi‑hole.
You'll probably see this message saying,
Did you mean the adminpanel?, which is actually the /admin.
I'm not sure why they have that message, but they do.
You'll need to log in with the password.
Remember the password we had during the installation process?
I hope you saved it because we'll need it.
Once you log in, it should look like this.
You'll see that it's pretty empty, and nothing's coming in.
We're only blocking a few thousand domains.
Also, there's nothing in the graph.
That's totally normal.
We're going to start setting that up.
Let's log in to our router.
You'll need to find where you can reserve IP addresses
for the devices on your network.
Look for something like LAN setup or DHCP.
And you'll need to set up an IP address reservation for your Pi‑hole. On
my demo router made by NETGEAR, it looks like this.
I'll click Add and select my Pi‑hole.
I'll set the IP address to the same IP address my Pi‑hole setup
had. Then I'll click Save or Add. Next on the router, let's find
the DNS. Chances are you'll need to go into the advanced settings
and find the DNS configuration.
This is how routers talk to the internet, so it should be wherever you
configure your internet connection to your ISP on your router.
In my case, that's ADVANCED, Setup, Internet Setup, and DNS Address.
This should be populated with whatever your current DNS server is.
It might be 8.8.8.8 or something similar.
We're going to set this to the Pi‑hole local IP address. Apply
these settings and save. To see if it's working,
switch back to your Pi‑hole, and you should see DNS
queries happening. N ow we're cooking. DHCP stands for
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
This assigns local IP addresses to your devices along with hostnames. In
our current setup for Pi‑hole, this shows all the data being filtered,
but each is the same IP address, my router.
While this is technically true, I want to see which device is requesting
which domain. For that, I need to have my Pi‑hole handle our DHCP.
Similar to before, we need to make two changes,
one on the router and one on the Pi‑hole. In this demo, I'm back in
my router where I made my IP address reservation.
I'm going to uncheck this box. Before I hit Apply, I'm going to
switch over to my Pi‑hole and check this box.
Notice the warning.
I'll change the range and hit Save. Back on the
router, I'll do the same and hit Apply.
This will make the changes and restart your router.
After that, you'll need to log in again and confirm the settings.
Then, on your Pi‑hole, you'll have the client's broken out by
device instead of just the router IP address. After you've made
the changes to the DHCP, you may want to go into Settings and
flush your network table.
This is completely optional.