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Pi-hole client filtering without DHCP? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi all - please tell me if I'm doing this wrong:

My 12yo spends all day on YouTube shorts. I want to block it, but can only block YouTube entirely. Blocking for everyone would upset my 15yo, so I need per-client domain filtering.

That was easy on Pi-hole. But my Raspberry died and I heard praise for Adguard Home so now I run that as a Docker container.

  1. I can't figure out how to block YouTube for only some devices. Is that not possible with Adguard? Claude gives me complicated nonsense; you can easily do better.

I want to ditch Adguard and go back to Pihole. The caveat is that I must let Pihole run the DHCP server, in order to get correct per-client blocking. That's a pity, as I have a neat UniFi network set up.

  1. Can I get Pihole's per-client blocking without Pihole as DHCP?

I don't mind setting it all up in Pihole again (as yet another container) because I know it works (it's how I had it before the Raspberry died). But I would love to know if I am going about this the wrong way? Thank you!

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That'll work great up until the kid finds out about changing the MAC address.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 15 points 1 year ago

Do it the other way around then. All devices have youtube blocked by default UNLESS you have a reserved DHCP where it is allowed. I imagine if the former is possible, the latter should be possible too.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

Good; incentive to go learn something. Have a plan in place to deal with it though.

Firewall rules don’t replace parenting.

[–] Oisteink@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or uses a device that rotates mac

[–] jonathan@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

They rotate them across different SSIDs to make it harder to track you. in a residential setup they should basically never rotate.