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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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 in Docker, see …

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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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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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I was on my mobile, looking up a few recipes, I was amazed at the number of intrusive ads I was getting, which made reading the web pages almost impossible.

Decided it was time to investigate Pi-hole, as I'd heard good things about it.

The Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, …

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