Subj : Re: Pi for kids?
To   : The Godfather
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Tue Aug 25 2020 16:43:43

 TG>  Me> Another cool project you might consider, is installing "pi-hole" whic
 TG>  Me> is a network Advertising blocker. You would configure it as your
 TG>  Me> network's DHCP server and let that issue IP addresses out instead of
 TG>  Me> your router, but stock config once set as DHCP will block pretty much
 TG>  Me> any and all banner ads and video ads on anything that would use them.
 TG>  Me> use pi-hole in a VM (as it can be installed on anything), and I love 
 TG>  Me> I even patreon them as I believe in it so much.
 TG>  Me> 
 TG> 
 TG> I read up on this and it's on my checklist for sure.  I've been
 TG> hesitant as I don't want it blocking ports for my BBS, due to my lack
 TG> of experience with Linux.  But I love the idea of no add banners,
 TG> etc... I'm also wanting to host my designed webpage from one, but thats
 TG> an entire other project to learn on it's own.  Too much learning to do,
 TG> and not enough time (shrug).

It doesn't block in that way, it's purely DNS blocking and outbound only, for
example; 

When you do a google search for something like "anti virus", usually
the first few items come up are sponsored ads, and as such you'd want to block
those, so pi-hole becomes your in-network DNS server, so instead of your
computers using google's DNS to resolve hostnames to IP addresses etc, your
pi-hole does that instead.

It will effectively blackhole the domains that it has in it's updatable
database so when your browser wants you to see an ad, instead of it getting it,
it will just get nothing.

No ports will be blocked inbound.
hope this helps explain it better.

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