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Pi-Hole DNS

Pi-hole is a very simple to use DNS that also provides network-wide ad blocking.

Installation

Installation is straightforward as documented at https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/basic-install/.

Manually download the installer and execute.

wget -O basic-install.sh https://install.pi-hole.net
sudo bash basic-install.sh

The server is installed on a very minimal VM.

Integration with Active Directory

In order to use Pi-Hole as the primary DNS server with Windows Active Directory (i.e., 192.168.2.251), enable the Use Conditional Forwarding option.

  1. Open the Pi-Hole admin page.
  2. Navigate to Settings > DNS.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and enable the "Use Conditional Forwarding" checkbox.
  4. Enter "192.168.2.0/24" in the Local Network field.
  5. Enter "192.168.2.252 in the "IP address of your DHCP server" field.
  6. Enter "refol.us" in the "Local domain name" field.

Admin Webpage

The admin webpage is accessible from a browser using the address http://pi.hole/admin or http://192.168.2.252/admin.

Usage

Open the TP-Link Omada management page at https://omada.tplinkcloud.com/ and perform the following:

  1. Open Settings > Wired Networks > LAN.
  2. Edit the Default network.
  3. Set the DNS Server to Manual.
  4. Enter 192.168.2.252, 192.168.2.253, 192.168.2.254.

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