Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware

The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

• Easy-to-install: our dialogs walk you through the simple installation process in less than ten minutes
• Resolute: content is blocked in non-browser locations, such as ad-laden mobile apps and smart TVs
• Responsive: seamlessly speeds up the feel of everyday browsing by caching DNS queries
• Lightweight: runs smoothly with minimal hardware and software requirements
• Robust: a command-line interface that is quality assured for interoperability
• Insightful: a beautiful responsive Web Interface dashboard to view and control your Pi-hole
• Versatile: can optionally function as a DHCP server, ensuring all your devices are protected automatically
• Scalable: capable of handling hundreds of millions of queries when installed on server-grade hardware
• Modern: blocks ads over both IPv4 and IPv6
• Free: open source software that helps ensure you are the sole person in control of your privacy

Piping to bash is controversial, as it prevents you from reading code that is about to run on your system. Therefore, we provide these alternative installation methods which allow code review before installation:

Method 1: Clone our repository and run

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole.git Pi-hole
cd "Pi-hole/automated install/"
sudo bash basic-install.sh

Method 2: Manually download the installer and run

wget -O basic-install.sh https://install.pi-hole.net
sudo bash basic-install.sh

Method 3: Using Docker to deploy Pi-hole

Please refer to the Pi-hole docker repo to use the Official Docker Images.

Post-install: Make your network take advantage of Pi-hole

Once the installer has been run, you w