A Beginner's Guide to Pihole

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Here's my tutorial on how to setup a Pi-hole using a Raspberry Pi, I'm very happy to have finally posted this, life has been a little hectic.

Thank you very much for watching please let me know what you think in the comments bellow and here are the commands for the more lazy of y'all out there (ngl im one of yall)
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Commands:
sudo reboot
sudo apt update
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
sudo pihole setpassword

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Unbound Common Issues and Documentation
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/yibsu8/unbound_proper_installation_raspbian/

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Music:
Galactic Bass - John Patitucci
Icelandic Arpeggios - DivKid
Satya Yuga - Jesse Gallagher
Sunrise Over Big Data Country - Dan Bodan

Music provided by the Youtube Audio Library
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - The Basics
03:22 - What Pi-Hole Is Good For
05:23 - Beginning Of Tutorial
07:32 - Hardware Setup
08:10 - Finding The Pi's IP
14:07 - Installing Pi-Hole
16:27 - Pi-Hole Portal
18:58 - Adding New Blocklists
21:23 - Testing Blocklists
24:26 - Blocking Specific Domains
25:28 - Adding Allowed Domains
26:58 - Setting Pi-Hole As Router's Default DNS
28:54 - Exporting/Importing Pi-Hole Settings