Redirect a website

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Hello,

This is my first post in this community :slight_smile:
I have installed pi-hole and I would like to block a website (for instance www.gmx.fr) and redirect to my local IP (192.168.0.XX) (with a 'Website not allowed")
I have tried to do it editing like this

sudo nano /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf

BLOCKINGMODE=NULL
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gmx.fr. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gmx.fr. 2 IN A 192.168.0.XX

I saved and then restarted :
sudo service pihole-FTL restart

It is not working, I still can access to https://www.gmx.fr.

Could someone kindly help me ?

Thanks,

Victor

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That actually, is the response you get when you try to dig gmx.fr
It's not a parameter you can config :slight_smile:

What you need to do is to edit /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf from BLOCKINGMODE=NULL to BLOCKINGMODE=IP and that, will return a (custom if needed) page residing on the Pi-hole with information.

See our official guide here Blocking mode - Pi-hole documentation for more info.

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Hello @RamSet,

Thanks for your response.
So, if my understanding is correct, my /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf file contains only BLOCKINGMODE=IP ?
And then on the blacklist page of pihole, I added:
www.gmx.fr ( Exact blocking)
and (^|.)gmx.fr$ (Wildcard)

But I can still access to www.gmx.fr
What am I missing ?

4

Correct.

Did you reload pihole-FTL and cleared the cache ?

This setting can be updated by sending SIGHUP to pihole-FTL ( sudo killall -SIGHUP pihole-FTL ).

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I just made a sudo killall -SIGHUP pihole-FTL and a sudo reboot, and nothing changed, I still can access to gmx.fr

6

Are you using the IP of Pi-hole as your sole DNS ?

If you have any other DNS' then your request might bleed through that.

What is the output of nslookup gmx.fr on a client?

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Ah, it actually blocks from other clients, and I have this line on the log
2019-12-12 18:36:16 A gmx.fr 192.168.0.26 Blocked (regex/wildcard)

But now how can I redirect to my local IP ?

@RamSet and thanks again for helping me!

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No problem.

Not quite sure I understand this properly.

You mean to redirect to the IP of your client or to the IP of Pi-hole, with a splash page ?

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When a client goes to gmx.fr, I want them to be redirected automaticaly to my local page (192.168.0.XX)

10

If you have BLOCKINGMODE=IP in the config, you should be able to see a page every time you access a blocked domain.

That page resides on your device hosting Pi-hole.

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I have BLOCKINGMODE=IP on my /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf
I can access to gmx.fr on my PC but other clients cannot access (= can't open website)

It's weird

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And still, I have this
2019-12-12 18:55:35 A www.gmx.fr 192.168.0.26 Blocked (regex/wildcard) - (0.3ms)
So,it's correctly blocked but I cannot do a redirection. @RamSet

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Try this

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server : pihole-raspberry
adress: 192.168.0.YY

and some lines about reply with not authority

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gmx.fr uses https so you can't intercept or present your own content in it's place.

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