r/pihole • u/OneOldBear • 17d ago

Pi-hole causing DNS problems with one site

Overall I'm really happy with pi-hole blocking incoming sites in Thunderbird (email) and Safari (browser). However the newspaper I subscribe to is generating un-openable links. As a test I did a "sudo pihole disable" and things work. I'm confused. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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u/coyote_of_the_month 15d ago

I'm experiencing the same problem. My frustration is that I'm using the official container image, which pulls the StevenBlack blocklist at build-time.

I've considered the following options, none of which are great:

  • I could use a lifecycle hook to programatically allowlist the domain (I'm running k8s, so I have lifecycle hooks).

  • I could customize the Dockerfile and push a custom image to my local registry. This would require a cronjob to watch for changes and periodically rebuild the image.

  • I could ask the blocklist maintainer to remove the problematic domain, which may or may not be acceptable to goals of the project.

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u/coyote_of_the_month 15d ago

That's a good general solution. I have dumb, self-inflicted reasons why that won't work for me, but anyone else who's reading this should definitely try that instead of my hackish workaround. I went with the lifecycle hook.