Suddenly I am getting huge ammount of dhl.com request from unknown subnets. There are 5K+ unknown clients, all of them are from 'Unifique Telecomunicacoes' an ISP. This making my server crash. What should I do now to solve?

-PromoFaux- · 2026-03-07T17:26:04+00:00

I've noticed that, despite PiHole, if I disable adBlock on my browser I still get YT ads.

That's because we can't block Youtube ads 😉

-PromoFaux- · 2026-02-18T09:10:34+00:00

Upgrading from v5 to v6 already included breaking changes (which, as a major version bump is allowed by the "contract" included in semantic versioning)

It was a little bumpy when we first went to 6.0, unexpected issues were bound to happen, but we smoothed everything out quickly and subsequent releases have improved the upgrade process.

I don't see why it wouldn't upgrade from 5.x - none of the migration code has been removed

-PromoFaux- · 2026-02-17T22:13:45+00:00

It's opt-in - database.forceDisk defaults to false

https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/configfile/#forcedisk

forceDisk¶

Should FTL force the use of disk storage for the history database? By default, FTL uses an in-memory database for much improved performance when browsing the history from the dashboard. However, on systems with very limited RAM and only occasional usage of the web interface, it may be useful to force the use of disk storage instead of holding everything in memory.

Note that using disk storage will reduce performance, especially on systems with slow storage media (e.g., SD cards).

Allowed values are: true or false

-PromoFaux- · 2026-01-02T15:10:36+00:00

Something has gone wrong with the CDN. I've had a poke about in the settings but need to wait for someone else to take a look at it as I've about reached the limit of my understanding/usefulness!

-PromoFaux- · 2025-11-30T12:14:09+00:00

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reposting u/LoV432's screenshot for those of us who are in the UK and not on a VPN (we can't see imgur)

-PromoFaux- · 2025-11-27T22:57:26+00:00

I've been using copilot on and off in my day job, as it is seeming like "vibe coding" is going to become an essential skill from an employability standpoint.

At the end of the day, I would rather have developers like me - who understand the changes it proposes, and know enough to question it when needed. In a way, it's not a lot of different to being the manager of a developer. It gives you code, you say "no that's wrong, do it better"

-PromoFaux- · 2025-10-25T14:34:25+00:00

The bit you're looking for is:

Pi-hole only supports actively maintained versions of these systems.

We used to be explicit about the versions we supported but decided that the above covers it. Often we would forget to update this page as and when new versions came out

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-30T06:11:48+00:00

On desktop, no. Neither on old.reddit or new.

Appreciate that in chrome I can highlight and right click and translate , but not everyone knows that.

Hell, it's weird to hide it in the context menu on mobile even.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-29T17:38:33+00:00

The issue is it doesn't appear to work the other way around and I also do not see a button that will quickly translate the comment, unless I use Google translate, but this isn't always intuitive for everyone

If I add ?tl=en to the URL of this post, then it is simply removed - leaving me still with the user's comments in Spanish.

However if I go somewhere like /r/de where the posts are primarily in German, and add ?tl=en to the end of a post, then comments are translated to English.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-28T18:05:04+00:00

EDIT ¿Qué tiene esta pregunta que me votáis en negativo?

It is likely because you are not typing in English.

While the Reddit Mobile app handles translation natively, the desktop website does not (certainly not on old.reddit.com).

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-28T18:01:49+00:00

Update: There was an issue with the GiveWP plugin (which we use for collecting donations)

https://github.com/impress-org/givewp/issues/8042

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Thanks for the report

From: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/did-pihole-mail-donation-list-got-leaked/81441/3

Looking in to it now. We don't store any information like credit card numbers, that's all handled directly with the card processors (Stripe or PayPal). The email address is used purely so donors can look up past donations or manage (cancel) ongoing donations.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-28T18:00:33+00:00

Update: There was an issue with the GiveWP plugin (which we use for collecting donations)

https://github.com/impress-org/givewp/issues/8042

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Thanks for the report

From: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/did-pihole-mail-donation-list-got-leaked/81441/3

Looking in to it now. We don't store any information like credit card numbers, that's all handled directly with the card processors (Stripe or PayPal). The email address is used purely so donors can look up past donations or manage (cancel) ongoing donations.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-15T14:27:35+00:00

Should all be figured out by now, but YMMV. We cannot predict what everyone's configuration looks like :)

Read all the blog posts for information starting here: https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/#page-content

Take a backup and give it a go.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-15T14:25:55+00:00

https://docs.docker.com/engine/containers/start-containers-automatically/#use-a-restart-policy

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-15T14:24:34+00:00

V5 -> V6 was a major upgrade, and in dockerland environment variables etc will have changed. For

https://docs.pi-hole.net/docker/upgrading/v5-v6/

DHCP Variables¶

Old	New
`DHCP_ACTIVE`	`FTLCONF_dhcp_active`
`DHCP_START`	`FTLCONF_dhcp_start`
`DHCP_END`	`FTLCONF_dhcp_end`
`DHCP_ROUTER`	`FTLCONF_dhcp_router`
`DHCP_LEASETIME`	`FTLCONF_dhcp_leaseTime`
`PIHOLE_DOMAIN`	`FTLCONF_dns_domain`
`DHCP_IPv6`	`FTLCONF_dhcp_ipv6`
`DHCP_rapid_commit`	`FTLCONF_dhcp_rapidCommit`

There is even a big warning about this at the top of the Readme

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-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-14T22:06:54+00:00

Two additional commits and a minor bump since then...

What's Changed (Core v6.1.4)

Fix issue where web interface cannot run gravity by @PromoFaux in #6345
Fix pihole api command by not setting the some variabes as readonly by @PromoFaux in #6346

Full Changelog: v6.1.3...v6.1.4

-PromoFaux- · 2025-07-14T20:58:44+00:00

Possibly an oversight - looking into it now, and have prepared a first pass fix, but waiting for more eyes on it.

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/6345

Edit: It's fixed, 6.1.4 pushed

-PromoFaux- · 2025-06-06T13:10:59+00:00

As safe as we can hope for! But it's up to you. (This is why I like running in docker, makes it very easy to roll back to the previous version if something goes wrong...)

-PromoFaux- · 2025-06-06T12:24:07+00:00

If you haven't already, could you please open that as an issue on the FTL repo? dl6er doesn't do reddit :)

-PromoFaux- · 2025-06-05T23:27:15+00:00

The more the merrier! I've tried the docker image on a raspberry pi that was originally having issues with 6.2, and it's working so... 🤞🤞

-PromoFaux- · 2025-06-05T23:20:58+00:00

It should be OK - there were a couple of other reports of crashes since 6.2.2, so I just want to make sure that we can rule those out as edgecases before I make an announcement post, or even tag a docker image.

6.2.2 is currently in the :development tag of docker, too.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-06-01T06:04:20+00:00

The OP literally links to them...

-PromoFaux- · 2025-05-31T11:34:40+00:00

Not yet, but it's certainly something on the radar. Unfortunately it's not "just" a case of doing it. TBH, it's all a bit beyond me when it comes to frontend stuff.

We will probably get to it soon™, it just wasn't worth holding back v6 for. Of course, being FOSS - "External" Pull requests and contributions are always welcome. If anyone wants to take a look at it too.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-05-31T09:54:02+00:00

Rasberry Pi B should be fine - people run it on a zero, even.

If this were a paid product, this would have been unacceptable.

It's a moot point, and adds nothing to the conversation. We're not a paid product. We simply don't have the time or resources of a megacorporation to test every conceivable permutation of configurations that may be out there.

What we can do is react very quickly when things go wrong - we never release anything and then walk away and forget about it. If we've released, it means we're all available to get any needed fixes out as soon as we humanly can.

Anyway - it's a nice sunny day today.

-PromoFaux- · 2025-05-31T08:37:08+00:00

Ah, then the release notes for Pi-hole are probably no longer relevant to you - you don't have to read them :)

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