DNS
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Best AdGuard Home Alternative: Pi-hole, Technitium, Blocky
Pi-hole v6 is the closest AdGuard Home alternative. Technitium suits recursion and clustering, Blocky suits containers, and NextDNS skips the server.
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Pi-hole vs pfSense pfBlockerNG: A Pi-hole Decision Guide
Choose Pi-hole alongside pfSense for separate DNS filtering, client groups and router independence, with pfBlockerNG reserved for IP policy.
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How to Set Up Pi-hole on Raspberry Pi (v6, Step by Step)
Set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi under v6: prerequisites, a fixed IP, the installer, upstream choice, DHCP option 6, and the tests that prove it works.
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Pi-hole Minimum Requirements: Hardware, RAM & Pi Models
Pi-hole needs at least 512 MB RAM, 2 GB free disk (4 GB recommended), a static IP and a supported OS. See which ports must be free and which Pi to use.
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Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home: How They Differ
Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home compares encrypted DNS, packaging, privileges, configuration, parental controls, and the shared limits of DNS blocking.
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Pi-hole Not Blocking Ads: How to Diagnose It
A step-by-step diagnostic order for a Pi-hole that stopped blocking, from checking whether queries arrive at all to clients that encrypt DNS and bypass it.
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What a Pi-hole DNS Sinkhole Can and Cannot Block
How DNS-level blocking works, why some ads still get through, and the network decisions that determine whether Pi-hole ever sees your traffic at all.