Your Pi-hole Isn’t Catching Everything, Plus everything I missed in Part 1
Pi-hole - Oops edition is here!
After A MINIMUM of 300+ successful installs in 6 days, I pulled your comments, built a word cloud, and put all the missing pieces in one place: hardware picks, blocklists (and breakage), device groups, whitelisting, why your ISP router stinks, how to stop Roku/PlayStation/Chromecast/Google TV and DoH/DoT from bypassing your filters, plus easy ways to use your Pi-hole on the go (Tailscale/Twingate/VPN).
I also updated the worksheet to fix the most common issues.
Links mentioned:
• Updated Worksheet (Pi-hole + Unbound): https://www.dad-the-engineer.com/blog...
• Local Forwarding post (LAN names & cleaner logs): https://www.dad-the-engineer.com/blog...
Hardware picks (what actually works)
• Pi 3B+ (1GB) or Pi 4B (2GB) = perfect
• Pi Zero 2 W = great for the redundant second Pi
• microSD: SanDisk/PNY is fine for this workload
• Case optional (I use vintage Netflix DVD mailers… don’t judge)
Chapters (suggested)
00:00 - Oops
01:37 - Where to buy legit Raspberry Pis
02:10 - Which Pi to choose (why not Pi 5?)
02:47 - microSD endurance reality check
03:12 - Cases (or… envelopes)
03:30 - Non-Pi installs (quick notes)
03:49 - Worksheet fixes (root hints & NTP)
04:24 - Local Forwarding (why you want it)
04:49 - Blocklists, “aggro level,” & groups/whitelists
05:24 - General Pi-hole usage
06:01 - “Will the Ethernet port/wifi bottleneck?” (No.)
06:41 - ISP router pain (UK especially) + bridge/Double-NAT options
07:57 - Rogue devices & apps (Roku/PS/Chromecast/Google TV, DoH/DoT)
09:07 - Firewall strategy: block 53/853 + common DoH endpoints
10:09 - Using Pi-hole on the go (DDNS/forwarding vs Tailscale/Twingate vs self-VPN vs VPS)
11:31 - “I still see ads” (expectations, telemetry wins)
12:36 - Membership, discord, new members, and THE RAFFLE!!!!
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