Running Pi Hole on a bridged/segregated network, how?

[deHakkelaar]

Nice.

@mrme01

And everything has .lan at the end of it, any ideas?

Checkout the "Pi-hole domain name" under the DHCP tab:

http://pi.hole/admin/settings.php?tab=piholedhcp

I believe you can leave it blank too but not sure.

EDIT: Ohw if change, your clients will need to renew their DHCP leases.
Disconnect/reconnect network or reboot clients.

EDIT2: Ohw. if want to have this setup running for a while, make sure named doesnt get started at boot:

sudo systemctl disable bind9

[mrme01]

Nope, red error. Domain name is invalid! It's not a big deal, to be honest as most devices are accessed by IP anyway, the only DNS name that matters is the one of the PIhole itself so it shows to the router as one name, not multiple, which is the intended goal, to make routing in and out easier. I say that after I said:

@mrme01

I have no idea on where to start with iptables. Or IP forwarding. Or masquerading.

I'm sure I will find a nice webui interface for firewalling stuff.

[deHakkelaar]

Current active iptables rules can be dumped to file:

sudo iptables-save > iptables.dump

Or read again:

sudo iptables-restore < iptables.dump

Could store for later reference.

[mrme01]

Thank you for your help @deHakkelaar. As with everything like this, there's always more to be done, but it's working for now, fulfilling two of the three purposes, showing as one interface to the router for easier management on that end, and blocking adverts this end. Next will be getting ports forwarded through, a VPN set up, as well as some other items I can't quite remember now.