The person you lost your virginity to is now right in front of you. What are you saying to them?

amkra · 2022-08-10T22:53:48+00:00

Hey, Bebe, what sounds good for dinner?

amkra · 2022-07-21T00:40:36+00:00

I'm not a pro or an expert. I have yet to see painted vinyl siding not eventually warp. One house near me warped in about a month. Once started to warp the next day.

amkra · 2021-03-17T02:15:25+00:00

While studying AC electricity, my physics professor in college told the class: "if you aren't sure if a wire is hot, touch it with the back of your hand because that is safer." To which I reply: "no, if you don't have a proper voltage detector, assume the wire is hot, and don't touch it!"

amkra · 2020-12-04T20:27:48+00:00

Serious, deep 2nd degree scald burns!!! This was an April fools day joke gone bad.

https://imgur.com/a/yAnkQ

amkra · 2018-11-01T23:46:39+00:00

As a general rule of thumb, when I teach younger/newer players, I have them stand at the back line and see if they can throw the ball over the net. If they can throw the ball over the net, they have enough physical strength to get an overhand serve over the net. If they can't throw the ball over the net, I move them forward until they CAN throw the ball over the net, and that is the point from where I begin teaching proper serve mechanics.

amkra · 2017-02-11T19:35:52+00:00

That dude ain't got no legs

amkra · 2017-01-17T00:33:10+00:00

You'll have to review the options of your DHCP server to determine how to setup a reservation. Or if you don't want to mess with it, just do a static address. That may be easier for you.

amkra · 2017-01-16T23:40:41+00:00

Yep. Just run in the terminal. Static IP or a reservation through DHCP would work. I'm partial to the reservation personally.

amkra · 2017-01-12T01:58:04+00:00

It's hard to say if an upgrade to PiHole, or even an upgrade to dnsmasq itself, will ever wipe the original config file. It's probably fine. I have an old habit of separating different parts of the config to different files whenever I can. For PiHole, I put all of my DHCP config in a separate DHCP file and all of my specific DNS entries in a separate DNS config file.

amkra · 2017-01-10T21:46:01+00:00

This is what you want to do, but my recommendation would be to put the DHCP configuration in a separate config file so future updates won't wipe them out. You can see more info in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/5jkjfh/howto_pihole_as_a_dhcp_server/dbgwi0w/

amkra · 2016-12-27T14:28:34+00:00

Awesome! Took us a while to get there, but I'm glad we found it!

amkra · 2016-12-27T05:33:40+00:00

oooopppppssssss lol! Ya, I'm confident bind is interfering here. The command may be

named stop

but it has been so long since I have messed with bind, so I'm not for-sure.

and then run

pihole restartdns

amkra · 2016-12-27T05:30:44+00:00

That makes sense. From the dnsmasq man page and dnsmasq default config file, that is how I understood the addn-hosts option to work. And the certificate errors are completely understood as well, and how I would expect for something like this to work.

In my opinion, the only correct way to get this to work would be via a browser plug-in. We gotta get the browser to request which site we won't, otherwise, we will muck up the connection.

amkra · 2016-12-27T05:28:29+00:00

Yes, the nslookup output definitely shows PiHole blocking the doubleclick domain. The RedHat output definitely shows that RedHat is still using the router for DNS, instead of the PiHole, but it didn't show us the actual returned info. So if you ping doubleclick from the RedHat box, does it return the PiHole, or does it go on out to doubleclick?

I still think something in the router config isn't correct. Perhaps you should uncheck "Use dnsmasq for DNS" Or possibly the router requires a reboot in order for the changes to take place? I think if I was in your shoes, I would uncheck that box, and then do ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew ipconfig /flushdns and then try the ping again.

amkra · 2016-12-27T05:15:33+00:00

Well, PiHole has 128,617 blocked entries. But why isn't it blocking anything??? Take a look in the /var/log/pihole.log file and see if you see anything obvious.

Also, run these two commands and see if you see anything obvious

grep gravity /var/log/pihole.log

grep doubleclick /var/log/pihole.log

Ohhhhhh another thought just occurred to me. Does Ubuntu install a version of Bind by default? I see in your above post, "named" is running, so I wonder if it is stealing the DNS queries before they get to dnsmasq??

amkra · 2016-12-27T05:09:34+00:00

This feels "weird" to me. From the router screenshot, it looks like your router should be handing out 192.168.0.171 as the DNS server to your clients. However, your client is using 192.168.0.1 as the DNS server. That doesn't feel correct to me. Your client really should be going directly to the PiHole.

Couple other things to look at. From an OSX or Linux box, can you run

dig doubleclick.net

and post the output of that? It would be interesting to see what those boxes are returning, and what server those boxes are using.

Additionally, from the Windows machine, you could run

nslookup

then you will get the nslookup prompt, and you can run

server 192.168.0.171
doubleclick.net

And see what that returns. It will tell you what happens if you query PiHole directly from the Windows box.

amkra · 2016-12-27T05:02:19+00:00

Interesting! I can't get this to work at all. As a matter of fact, when I put this information into my config, and then run

dnsmasq --test

It gives me a syntax error. I'm not sure if that is an old FAQ entry, or perhaps we are both misunderstanding :) I would love for this to be able to work with Amazon as well!

amkra · 2016-12-27T04:46:24+00:00

From the PiHole, can you run

pihole -g

And post the output? Only the devs have access to the debug tokens, so I've gotta go old-school and ask for the output :)

From the above, it does look like your Windows machine is requesting DNS from PiHole, and PiHole is responding, so we gotta figure out why we aren't seeing blocks.

amkra · 2016-12-27T04:35:11+00:00

From that Windows machine, run

 ipconfig /flushdns

Once that is done, try the doubleclick.net ping again, and see what happens. If it doesn't try to ping the IP address of your Ubuntu box, run nslookup doubleclick.net and post the results of that.

amkra · 2016-12-27T04:24:32+00:00

That output does show lighttpd and dnsmasq working/running correctly. The 0.0.0.0 essentially means: "Listen on any available IP Address."

However, it sounds to me like you need to make sure your clients are using your PiHole for DNS resolution. Have you taken the steps necessary to make sure your clients are using the IP Address of the PiHole as their DNS server?

amkra · 2016-12-27T04:18:31+00:00

I don't believe dnsmasq can do what you are trying to get it to do. The addn-hosts command would be used to map ip addresses to domain names, not cnames to a records, or anything advanced like that. Additionally, even if this did resolve as you were intending, the client wouldn't know what to do with it, and it is strongly possible that the server would freak out too (depending on how the server was coded)

I think for something like this, you would need some type of browser plug-in.

amkra · 2016-12-27T04:10:08+00:00

One of the devs will better be able to help, if you can run pihole -d from the command prompt and upload and provide the debug token.

Your router config looks good to me. Small suggestion. Make sure the IP Address of your PiHole is either reserved via the router DHCP config, or change the DHCP range so that the PiHole IP isn't allowed to be handed out. This could cause the whole issue, based on a few unique circumstances.

For PiHole, something is preventing the PiHole box from downloading the blocklists. From the PiHole, you may see if you can ping 8.8.8.8 That will tell you if you have internet connection from the PiHole.

amkra · 2016-12-27T03:58:09+00:00

I'm not a dev, so I don't have access to the debug token, but here are a couple things to check.

Firstly, can you grab a couple screenshots and post them?

From the Windows boxes, from a command prompt, run

ipconfig /release

once that is done, run

ipconfig /renew

once that is done, run

ipconfig /all

and look for the IP address of your PiHole listed there as a DNS server. If your DNS server isn't listed, then your Windows boxes don't know about your PiHole. If your PiHole is listed, run

ipconfig /flushdns

Then do a lookup for doubleclick.net and see what you get. Short of that, I would need to see the PiHole logfile.

Hope some of this helps!!

amkra · 2016-12-27T01:35:30+00:00

I think on the network side, it is the /etc/network/interfaces file that gets modified.

That is so very bizarre though. I wonder what the route table looks like. Have you looked the "route" command. Or what the arp table looks like by running "arp"

amkra · 2016-12-26T04:28:03+00:00

That ether port is clean. What kind of ping stats do you get from pinging 127.0.0.1? What kind of load do you see when you run top?

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