Once the installation of Pi-Hole is finished, we have to go to the configuration from the

administrator panel via web, from a browser we have to indicate the Web address of the
NAS and the port that we have assigned to Pi-Hole (http://192.168.1.xx:puerto/admin). Log
in and enter your password by clicking on Login.

Once inside, we will access the data visualisation panel. From here we can see all the
options available in the menu in the left-hand column of the screen.

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To Configure the network
For Pi-Hole to work, all the devices on the network must have the IP address of the NAS
configured as the DNS server address.

The quickest and easiest way is to do it in the router that manages the network, so you don’t
have to do it manually computer by computer. That is, we put the ip of our router, we enter
and depending on each brand and model, we change the dns and put the ip of NAS as DNS
server 1, it would look like this:

You can put as DNS server 2, Google’s, 8.8.8.8, but depending on the system or devices that

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we are going to connect, it may cause problems and not filter well, in my case, if I put
Google’s DNS as secondary, the mobiles catch the latter. And in this way it doesn’t filter
well.

Once the DNS has been changed, restart the devices with Automatic IP and they will
automatically obtain the IP of our NAS as DNS server. In the same way for those that have
been assigned a reserved IP in the Router.

For equipment with static (fixed) IP configured manually on the device itself, the primary
DNS must be changed in the configuration of the corresponding network adapter.

From Pi-Hole we can see which computers are connected to the network and which of them
are using Pi-Hole, filtering advertising and prying eyes in the “Tools” section and within
“Network” of the web control panel, in the column indicated above on the left.

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Updating Lists
From the Group Management -> Adlists section you can modify the lists that Pi-hole uses to
allow or block addresses.

Although there are many websites on the Internet dedicated to compiling lists, my personal
recommendation is to use the lists that appear in green at https://firebog.net/ and every few
months (another option is https://filterlists.com/), come back to check if new lists are
available. The lists themselves are self-updating, so there is no need to reconfigure them,
even if you add or remove things within them.

Once we have added the lists, we proceed to update them, and we do it from the menu
“Tools” “Upadte Gravity”

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Backing up
When we have finished doing everything and it is working OK, the best thing to do is to
make a backup copy, in case we have any failure in the future, to be able to leave everything
as it was.

To do this task we do it from the panel, we click on “Settings” “Teleporter”

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This image would be to make the copy, following the steps. If we want to do the opposite,
that is, we want to restore a copy, we would have to choose the backup file we had
previously made from “browse” and click on “Restore”. We can recover the complete
backup, or we can choose the parts we want to restore.

It is recommended to back up every change we make.

With all these steps we will have our Pi-Hole installation ready to use and enjoy an ad-free
internet connection, as well as faster connections on our mobile phones and tablets by not
having to load those advertising banners that abound nowadays and that we hate so much.

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