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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Little of column A little of column B.

    I use pihole on the LAN, then upstream is cloudflared translating DNS to DOH using NextDNS as the primary and Quad9 as the fallback.

    Looking at the last 24hrs; my whole LAN network has made 91k DNS requests, 14.5% of that being passed to the upstream (the rest is locally cached responses or blocked) so ~12.7k served by NextDNS. When/if that 300k limit is reached, cloudflared will just fallback to Quad9.

    With this I get the blocking from NextDNS as well as whatever additional lists I want to use; plus pihole serves local only records for self-hosted services and fixed names for LAN devices (I find standard broadcasted hostnames unreliable at best).


  • It’s really nice for random browsing/apps. Games, free tools, general web browsing; none of it loads ads.

    Some mobile games will even attempt to load ads, fail, then give you the reward for ‘watching’ the ad.

    It also stops devices from phoning home to upload telemetry and blocks known malware domains. (depends on the lists you use, heres a source for some lists)




  • Nice!

    Upgrade went smoothly on docker, with some neat new additions. There’s new filter options in the query log. There’s a bunch of new metrics under Settings > System (enable ‘advanced’ in the top right). And overall there seems to be many more settings available under System > All Settings. For example you can easily set the TTL for blocked responses (this was a setting burried in config files before, I was looking for it like 2 weeks ago).

    If you don’t use/set a password in pihole, or you set one via .env variables; you’ll probably have to reset it with the command:

    sudo docker exec <container_name> sudo pihole setpassword <your password here>

    (empty for no password)

    /edit; seems that was a temporary solution.

    These env variables have changed:

    Was: webpassword=<your password>

    DNS1=<upstream1>

    DNS2=<upstream2>

    Now: FTLCONF_dns_upstream=<upstream1;upstream2>

    FTLCONF_webserver_api_password=<your password here>


  • I run Borg nightly, backing up the majority of the data on my boot disk, incl docker volumes and config + a few extra folders.

    Each individual archive is around 550gb, but because of the de-duplication and compression it’s only ~800mb of new data each day taking around 3min to complete the backup.

    Borgs de-duplication is honestly incredible. I keep 7 daily backups, 3 weekly, 11 monthly, then one for each year beyond that. The 21 historical backups I have right now RAW would be 10.98tb of data. After de-duplication and compression it only takes up 407.98gb on disk.

    With that kind of space savings, I see no reason not to keep such frequent backups. Hell, the whole archive takes up less space than one copy of the original data.