PiHole

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Commands[edit]

Change Admin Password[edit]

pihole -a -p yournewsuperstrongpassword

Using pi-hole as LAN DNS server[edit]

echo "addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/lan.list" | sudo tee /etc/dnsmasq.d/02-lan.conf

After this, create a “hosts file” for your network /etc/pihole/lan.list with the format ipaddress fqdn hostname, eg

192.168.1.40     marvin.your.lan  marvin
192.168.1.41     eddie.your.lan   eddie
192.168.1.42     hactar.your.lan  hactar

Finally, restart your name server:

sudo pihole restartdns