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 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!

  • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    16 hours ago

    Just so you know, you can run pi-hole as a container as well

    About dhcp, I don’t know about unifi, but I guess in the firewall you can configure static dhcp leases. So son1 devices always get same ip. Then you can configure a hairpin port forwarding, so any requests for ports tcp/udp53 from his devices get forwarded to pi-hole. That is assuming that in the “general” dhcp config you assign an external dns.

    Otherwise you could try creating two different dhcp pools, one with pi-hole (and make sure son1 devices get a static lease in there) and one for everyone else.

    As a side note, I recommend looking into self hosting your piped instance, so even son2 can enjoy YouTube without all the ads! (And the tracking)

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Posting here so I remember to share my UniFi setup later. Off the top of my head UniFi manages my DHCP leases like normal, and I set my DNS to my Pihole server with I forget what logging option on so I get full metrics in Pihole of what clients are what for each DNS request.

      • AliasVortex@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        That sounds pretty similar to how I have my network setup:

        • PiHole has conditional forwarding configured (true,192.168.0.0/24,192.168.1.1,lan note: .lan is optional here, I uss it for my internal TLD) to get device names from router
        • PiHole uses Unifi as the upstream DNS and DHCP
        • Unifi uses cloudflare as the upstream DNS
        • Unifi hands out the PiHole as the DNS via DHCP config

        That way I get stats in all the places and can use Unifi for DHCP.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I have it running in a container in my closet server. It’s got It’s own IP address using a macvlan setup.