# Pi-hole on Synology diskstations **URL:** \ **Category:** Closed or Out Of Scope\ **Created:** [October 18, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233 "2016-10-18T18:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1

**Author:** ![feature-bot](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/feature-bot/32/95_2.png) [@feature-bot](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/feature-bot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/1 "2016-10-18T18:32:38Z")

Synology Diskstations are more then just NAS - they act as a small server where you can install packages on, a lot of them usable via via web interface. (a few examples: transmission bittorent client, nzbget, sickbeard, couchpotato, etc) At the moment i do not have a Raspberry Pi available to install pihole on., but my diskstation DS115 is running 24/7. It would be perfect for me if i could install Pi-Hole on this diskstation. I understand some diskstations support Docker, so maybe thats a solution for some people. My diskstation (DS114) doens't support docker. The most convenient way would be if a package would be made to add to a custom repository, but i'd be happy anyway if i could install pi-hole in some way (I've tried via the Debian chroot package from [https://synocommunity.com/](https://synocommunity.com/), but the installer tells me there is not enough free space. Probably because it doesn't install on /volume1/ but on the diskstation itself Hope we can find a solution for this! p.s. I realise the name Pi-Hole wouldn't be right anymore. I suggest Sy-Hole 🙂 ---

**Author:** ![nielsicq](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/cab0a1/32.png) [@nielsicq](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/nielsicq)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/2 "2016-10-19T06:40:03Z")

Good idea! Maybe it Will even work better on the Synology router! ---

**Author:** ![schumi2004](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@schumi2004](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/schumi2004)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/3 "2016-10-19T07:15:10Z")

+1 Would be great to have Pi-hole running on other hardware then Raspberry Pi's ---

**Author:** ![PromoFaux](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/promofaux/32/1545_2.png) [@PromoFaux](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/PromoFaux)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/4 "2016-10-19T07:44:14Z")

> [@schumi2004](#): > > Would be great to have Pi-hole running on other hardware then Raspberry Pi's It does! Pretty much anything you can run a debian based distro on. So that includes Debian and Ubuntu! We even officially support Centos/Fedora! We have had some discussion on [github](https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/287) about synology NAS, so this would be a great place to continue that discussion! ---

**Author:** ![SmiGueL](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@SmiGueL](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/SmiGueL)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/5 "2016-10-20T10:37:56Z")

I currently use the default DNS server from Synology as a Sy-Hole ad-blocker. Please read my post for more info: [https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=78126&start=45#p451753](https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=78126&start=45#p451753) I've made it so you can use the same adblock/trackers lists Pi-Hole uses, and you can also add a custom blacklist and whitelist to it. The whitelist is to overrule some of the the unwanted URL's in the Pi-Hole blacklists. I know this isn't exactly the same as Pi-Hole, doesn't have a nice UI, isn't a package, and takes up more RAM when importing multiple huge lists. (but it's very simple to install though, read the post) It can update automatically ever day or week (or whatever you like) so you always have the latest version of the blacklists. I would really like to see that Pi-Hole gets it's own Synology package, but till that time this works fine for me. 🙂 ---

**Author:** ![bakman2](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/bakman2/32/1922_2.png) [@bakman2](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/bakman2)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/6 "2016-10-20T17:34:16Z")

I have just added an item in the FAQ to install Pi-hole on Syno with chroot: > [@How do I install Pi-hole on a Synology NAS?](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-install-pi-hole-on-a-synology-nas/289): > > How do I install Pi-hole on a Synology NAS This is a basic functional installation, it does not take into account any special servers/services that you may have running on your DSM. This was done succesfully on DSM 5.2-5967 and DSM 6.0.2-8451 Update 2. It uses [Debian chroot](https://wiki.debian.org/chroot) to run Pi-hole and should take less than 30 minutes to install. Install Chroot In DSM: Add source: Package Center \> Settings \> Package Sources \> add: [http://packages.synocommunity.com/](http://packages.synocommunity.com/) In Package Center \> Community \> In… ---

**Author:** ![iroQuai](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/iroquai/32/99_2.png) [@iroQuai](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/iroQuai)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/7 "2016-10-25T07:50:14Z")

A while ago i've added this request to the old board. I didn't notice the move to discourse so didn't keep track of the progress that has been made! Seems like it's working now. When I have some time i'll try it out! Next step would be making a package out of this, but i guess that's something for the synology community? I've added a package request @ SynoCommunity: [[Package Request] Pi-Hole · Issue #2501 · SynoCommunity/spksrc · GitHub](https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/issues/2501) ---

**Author:** ![DL6ER](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dl6er/32/281_2.png) [@DL6ER](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/DL6ER)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-on-synology-diskstations/233/8 "2017-01-12T10:56:38Z")

Closing to free votes. There is an FAQ article describing the installation. ---