PiHole directly on Routers (Tomato, MerlinWRT, DD-WRT, openWRT)

Feature Requests
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I just got a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X and installed OpenWRT on it.

If anybody needs help testing, please call me.

82

It would be great to have pi-hole in the routerā€¦ what is more, probably is the right place.

Why not a merge/fusion?? In other words, talk to the developer of Diversion ā€”what is called now the AB solutionā€” and try to implement the pi-hole benefits on their solution.

Probably much better than start form scratch.

84

Is there a repository somewhere with the code for this application?

85

Seems that it was for the previos versions, but I can't find any information about the current version. The code seems to be the open source with GPL3 license.

87

Hello all,

I am new to this Community, wanted to check if Pihole could be made to run on Asus RT-68U with Merlin OS running

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

91

For your router I would suggest you investigate this project:

92

Thank you, I have already installed the diversion but was checking option for Pihole, read some articles where users tried and then stopped. So wanted check if there was any other option.

93

I have a Netgear X10 (R9000) Router with a 1.7GHz Quad Core processor and plenty of RAM to spare. It is also running the latest available version of DD-WRT. Iā€™m willing to be a test subject if needed. :wink:

EDIT: Just realized this was a zombie thread. :sweat_smile:

Pihole on OpenWRT Docker
95

Considering both of those GitHub repos are over 3 years old, I'm not surprised it doesn't work.

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99

Apologizes for raising this thread from the grave but to anyone who is still tracking this feature request - I'm working on Entware package to make installing V6 easy on devices that are compatible.
https://github.com/jacklul/entware-pi-hole/
Could use some feedback and testing!

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100

I would!

101

I'm planning to replace my MIPS router next month with some aarch64 one.
is there a specific reason why it only works for aarch64-k3.10 and not for other aarch64 or is this just not tested yet?

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These are architectures Entware is build for, see Entware/configs at master Ā· Entware/Entware Ā· GitHub
Entware is basically a modified OpenWRT build system, so packages are build targeting specific kernel version. I don't think kernel version matter much here, I am running 4.19 kernel using packages from armv7sf-k3.2 Entware architecture.
My project does not target any specific kernel version - I inherit binary build process from official Pi-hole repo.

103

Sorry,
I missed the fact that entware != openWrt.
reading the manual I thought entware was some kind of virtualization.

104

if I want to try this on openWrt, what would be the line to add in customfeeds.conf ?
I tried

src/gz pi-hole https://github.com/jacklul/entware-pi-hole/blob/a386a82da64efb8dac0ba49444e90defd571f7ec/aarch64-k3.10

but then the signature seems to be missing.

105

You can also get it running by using docker. Which I did, however pi-hole wants to run at port 53 obviously. Where a lot of dnsmasq processes are already running. Does anyone have a good idea how it still works?

106

Barely any router supports Docker. Container networking might be isolated and extra rules must be created to forward queries to it.

I've been running it through my project for over a year now and it's working smoothly, although I still consider it experimental.

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107

That is right, but mine does. And your project does not work for openwrt if I saw correctly?

108

That's right, it does not support OpenWRT, unless you can get Entware working on it.

109

Is Pihole of much use today still ? I mean so many devices now do DNSoH to whatever server they likeā€¦. not sure itā€™s worth the hazzle.