- **Epistemic status:** #seedlings - **[Site](https://pi-hole.net/)** - **[Documentation](https://docs.pi-hole.net/)** ![[Pasted image 20220504082317.png]] Pi-hole is an open-source application that serves as a DNS sinkhole, blocking advertisements, malware sites, or any specified URL through the network. It uses publicly available lists to block queries from common ad domains, making them unavailable on the website that you are looking at. Since it's blocking queries to those servers, the performance of the network increases due to not waiting to fetch a resource. Another bonus is that you can block sites that you don't want to be accessed in your network that have malware. You can use any device or have a docker container dedicated for this only purpose. --- ## References - “Overview of Pi-Hole - Pi-Hole Documentation.” Accessed May 4, 2022. <https://docs.pi-hole.net/>.