(windows 10 pro)
I have spectrum internet and use their router because I don’t feel like dealing with replacing routers. Meaning the router config isn’t that in depth compared to having your 3rd party router. I use windscribe VPN, how do I get pihole to block all ads and allow me to windscribe on my devices?
Thanks
Windscribe is probably providing your DNS when you connect. It’s likely that it completely bypasses your routers DNS and your pihole.
I’m unfamiliar with windscribe. But I know if I connected to PIA or Nord they would both bypass any DNS settings I had set up in the house.
If the VPN has an option to allow you to specify Dennis servers you could point it to the pie hole but it looks like windscribe already provides ad blocking.
did you intentionally say Dennis server? cause I’m gonna start saying that regardless.
He needs a more intelligent router. Something proper would allow a locally global DNS routing option. Even though the VPN is binding all outgoing traffic, the router itself isn’t directing traffic through the local DNS server before heading out of the network through the tunnel.
I have spectrum, and their provided router/wifi tower thing is a piece of junk.
The Pihole should indeed be the primary DNS.
The DNS of the VPN should be setup somewhere on the Pi Hole as a sort of secondary DNS.
Really all you gotta do, once pihole is running, is configure your router to use the pihole as your DNS server. The router should still be your DHCP server.
I gotta look up which total I used.
Also pihole isn’t super in depth when it comes to ad blocking. It’ll get most stuff, not you’ll still need to rely on your browser, for example, to do some more blocking with stuff like ublock. Like it won’t block YouTube ads, or most ads in streaming services.
Unlock is the way. Also, sometimes IPS routers use ipv6 and pihole does not support it.
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You’re vpn is probably using its own dns servers, does your vpn allow you to change the dns settings?
I’ll have to check, I use windscribe
Windscribe have a free product called control-d DNS which works like pihole but you don’t have to manage it yourself. Just set your router or PC DNS to point to the controld DNS server that suits what you want filtered.
Oh neat I didn’t know about this. It being free means it’s probably limited or something though right?
The issue seems to be Windscribe. You probably need to allow LAN connections and set your custom DNS IP. https://chn.windscribe.net/knowledge-base/articles/how-to-use-custom-dns-in-the-windscribe-app
How far through the setup did you get? Why do you think it’s not working?
From reading other comments it seems windscribe may be over ruling it or something
Yes, windscribe vpn sends your DNS traffic to its own servers to prevent your ISP from spying on your traffic. They claim to be able to block ads so why are you also trying to run a pi-hole box?
What sharpiemaker said is your workaround ticket. Configure each device in their network settings to resolve DNS to your local pihole address will scoot all queries to the pihole before windscribe even has the option to make its own decisions.
Some stuff can’t run windscribe like game consoles. I just wanna cover every base of blocking ads
As others have said, if your computer is running the VPN it’s going to bypass the DNS service that your router is trying to use BUT if the pi is set up properly and your router is aimed at it for DNS it should still work to block ads for things like your Xbox or Smart TV or whatever.
Ah, that could very well be the case.
You use a different router that lets you control your dns
Sure, are you buying it for me?
No, not my responsibility. I can make some inexpensive recommendations depending on your technical skill
We both know electronics are you get what you pay for
My wife uses VPN for work. It will bypass the pihole because it does as intended, create an encrypted virtual private network tunnel directly with their server. Pihole can see the client when it logs on to the home network but will then ignore, and won’t be able to monitor any traffic as soon as my wife logs into her works VPN anyway.
With those limited ISP routers, disable dhcp and let the pihole do the dhcp serving. This is how I do it with a raspberry pi to connect all clients and give out the pihole address automatically. It’s better anyway, as the clients data isn’t all piled up into one 3rd party’s router’s IP address.
For VPN check this:
https://pivpn.io/
https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-with-openvpn-the-easy-way-use-pivpn/7912You need a raspi though, but PiVPN supports openVPN and Wireguard:
https://windscribe.com/features/config-generatorsLookup “how to add pi hole regex” add them slow, youtube 24hr banned my box, but they work.
Banned your box?
Have an apple box, setup pi hole on my network and my yt account was banned for 24hrs. Every time Id tried to use the app on the apple box it’d give a message. But it was just fine for the browser, not many ads to non on yt or anything else. Lost that fight though because my wife is all about yt on the tv.
