pi-hole/pi-hole

Features

• DNS-Based Ad Blockers - Intercepts and drops DNS requests for known advertising and tracking domains to prevent unwanted content from loading.
• DNS Daemons - Runs as a lightweight background daemon to manage domain name resolution requests with minimal system overhead.
• Recursive DNS Resolvers - Acts as a central gateway that resolves domain names locally to enhance privacy and bypass external tracking attempts.
• DNS Filtering Solutions - Discarding DNS queries for specific domains or content categories ensures that restricted traffic never reaches the local network.
• DNS Sinkholes - Redirects queries for malicious or unwanted domains to a null address, effectively preventing connections to those servers.
• Network Ad Blockers - Blocks advertisements and tracking scripts across every connected device by filtering traffic at the DNS level.
• Network Utilities - Centralizes control over domain resolution and traffic filtering for all hardware within a home or office network.
• Host File Managers - Maintains system-level mapping files to programmatically redirect network traffic toward a local filtering engine.
• DNS Management - Network-wide ad blocking with a management GUI.
• Infrastructure Services - Network-wide DNS sinkhole for blocking unwanted content.
• Network Infrastructure - Network-wide ad-blocking via DNS sinkholing.
• Systems And Services - Listed in the “Systems And Services” section of the The Book Of Secret Knowledge awesome list.
• Internet Services - Network-level advertisement and tracker blocking via DNS.
• Ad Blockers - Network-wide ad-blocking software for local infrastructure.
• DNS Traffic Managers - Gains visibility into outgoing internet traffic by monitoring how connected devices resolve domain names.
• Network Administration Dashboards - Visualizes network traffic statistics and manages configuration settings through an integrated web-based administrative interface.
• Network Performance Optimizers - Speeds up page load times and reduces bandwidth consumption by preventing resource-heavy advertisements from being downloaded.
• Regex Filtering Engines - Applies regular expression patterns to incoming DNS queries to identify and block requests associated with advertising or tracking.
• Network Security Tools - Protects connected devices from malicious activity by intercepting and blocking suspicious requests before they enter the network.

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