I recently upgraded both of my Pi-Holes to version 6.

Not much to really write about, but there are some differences for some edge use cases, none of which impacted myself.

I wanted to implement DNS over HTTPS (DoH), which adds an additional layer of security to your network.

If you are running Pi-hole on a Unifi UDM, …

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Plex had a security breach, and because of that, recommended all Plex users reset their passwords.

Email sent out from Plex: …

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By default, the Docker daemon listens for connections on a Unix socket to accept requests from local clients.

We are going to configure Docker to accept requests from remote clients by configuring it to listen on an IP address/port, in addition to the Unix socket.

There is a lot of conflicting, and incorrect …

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Why multiple Pi-holes and keeping them in sync

For redundancy, I run two Pi-hole instances on two different hardware devices.

Out of the box, making a change on one Pi-hole means logging into the other Pi-hole and making the same change, so the Pi-Hole instances return the same results.

Not an ideal situation, in case …

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Listening to audio books

Usually when I listen to an audiobook, I listen through the Audible mobile app if the books is something I've purchased through Audbile.

I have a decent size collection of DRM-free audiobooks, and for those I use the Smart AudioBook Player Android app.

However, allowing my family to access my …

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Pi-hole admin page redirect failure

I run two Pi-hole instances for redundancy, on two different hardware devices.

I ran into a small, but annoying, issue when trying to access the web admin page.

When accessing the admin web page, Pi-hole should redirect / to /admin, but it wasn't on just one of my Pi-hole instances. …

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