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====== Install Pi-hole with recursive DNS server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as Unraid Virtual Machine ======
This will guide you through the setup of Pi-hole with a recursive DNS server using Unbound on an installation of [[Ubuntu 20.04 LTS]] as an Unraid Virtual Machine.
===== VM Settings =====
  * Autostart: Yes
  * Name: pihole.20.04vX
  * Description: Pi Hole
  * CPU Mode: Host Passthrough
  * Logical CPUs: 3
  * Internal Memory: 1024
  * Max Memory: 1024
  * Machine: Q35-4.1
  * BIOS: OVMF
  * USB Controller: 2.0 (EHCI) (I don't have USB 3.0 on current hardware)
  * OS Install ISO: select the ubuntu - 20.04 iso
  * OS Install CDRom Bus: SATA
  * Primary vDisk Location: Auto if on the array, below options for ssd
    */mnt/disks/samsung_nvme/vms/pihole.20.04vX/vdisk1.img            --> This one is vDisk on SSD (Current setup uses this)
    */dev/disk/by-id/ata-"ID OF DRIVE" --> This one is passthrough
  * Primary vDisk Size: 10G
  * Primary vDisk Type: raw
  * Primary vDisk Bus: VirtIO if on the array, below options for ssd
    * VirtIO         --> This one is vDisk on SSD (Current setup uses this)
    * SATA           --> This one is passthrough
  * Graphics Card: VNC
  * VNC Video Driver: QXL (best)
  * VNC Password: leave this blank (or set password if concerned folks will get access to unraid!)
  * VNC Keyboard: English-United States
  * Sound Card: none
  * Network MAC: whatever it is
  * Network Bridge: br0
  * USB Devices: none
  * Other PCI Devices: none

===== Install to Virtual Machine =====

  * Full Name: Dirk Rockface
  * Server: pihole
  * User Name: dirk
  * Finish installing. I didn't install any "common packages" from the setup CD.

===== Setup =====
==== Update Packages ====
<code>sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code>

==== Install SSH Server ====
<code>sudo apt-get install openssh-server</code>

==== Create ssh-rsa key auth ====
  * In home directory <code>mkdir .ssh</code>
  * authorized_keys file needs to have keys in them. Copy over from harddrive, external drive, or create them.
  * When making keys on clients <code>ssh-keygen -t rsa</code> 
  * New things for keys:
    * So, ssh-keygen no longer creates the keys with the headers on them.  Seems to be no big deal for ssh but Cyberduck borked.
    * To make private keys with headers for Cyberduck:<code>openssl genrsa -aes128 -out id_rsa 2048
openssl rsa -in id_rsa -pubout -out id_rsa.test
ssh-keygen -f id_rsa.test -i -mPKCS8</code>
    * Links:
      * https://rietta.com/blog/2012/01/27/openssl-generating-rsa-key-from-command/
      * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011572/convert-pem-key-to-ssh-rsa-format

  * Turn off Password Auth<code>sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config</code><code>UsePAM yes
PasswordAuthentication no</code>
==== Reboot ====
<code>sudo reboot -h now</code>

==== Install Pi-hole ====
<code>curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash</code>
  * Select Google (we will remove it later)
  * Ok to default "StevenBlock"
  * Ok to IPv4 and IPv6
  * Yes to Static
  * Yes to Web Admin Interface
  * Yes to Web Server
  * Yes to queries
  * Show everything
  * Change password <code> pihole -a -p password</code>

==== Install Unbound ====
<code>sudo apt-get install unbound</code>
  * write config file
<code>sudo vim /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/pi-hole.conf</code>
<code>server:
    # If no logfile is specified, syslog is used
    # logfile: "/var/log/unbound/unbound.log"
    verbosity: 0

    interface: 127.0.0.1
    port: 5335
    do-ip4: yes
    do-udp: yes
    do-tcp: yes

    # May be set to yes if you have IPv6 connectivity
    do-ip6: no

    # You want to leave this to no unless you have *native* IPv6. With 6to4 and
    # Terredo tunnels your web browser should favor IPv4 for the same reasons
    prefer-ip6: no

    # Use this only when you downloaded the list of primary root servers!
    # If you use the default dns-root-data package, unbound will find it automatically
    #root-hints: "/var/lib/unbound/root.hints"

    # Trust glue only if it is within the server's authority
    harden-glue: yes

    # Require DNSSEC data for trust-anchored zones, if such data is absent, the zone becomes BOGUS
    harden-dnssec-stripped: yes

    # Don't use Capitalization randomization as it known to cause DNSSEC issues sometimes
    # see https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/unbound-stubby-or-dnscrypt-proxy/9378 for further details
    use-caps-for-id: no

    # Reduce EDNS reassembly buffer size.
    # Suggested by the unbound man page to reduce fragmentation reassembly problems
    edns-buffer-size: 1472

    # Perform prefetching of close to expired message cache entries
    # This only applies to domains that have been frequently queried
    prefetch: yes

    # One thread should be sufficient, can be increased on beefy machines. In reality for most users running on small networks or on a single machine, it should be unnecessary to seek performance enhancement by increasing num-threads above 1.
    num-threads: 1

    # Ensure kernel buffer is large enough to not lose messages in traffic spikes
    so-rcvbuf: 1m

    # Ensure privacy of local IP ranges
    private-address: 192.168.0.0/16
    private-address: 169.254.0.0/16
    private-address: 172.16.0.0/12
    private-address: 10.0.0.0/8
    private-address: fd00::/8
    private-address: fe80::/10</code>
    
==== Point Pi-hole to Unbound ====
  * log into pi-hole
  * go to Settings -> DNS
  * uncheck Google servers and add Custom 127.0.0.1#5335
  * Save

==== Fix domain pointing to /admin page ====
  * To redirect the root address to /admin, add the following line to /etc/lighttpd/external.conf: (it used to be /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf but it is recommended to use /etc/lighttpd/external.conf so that it isn't overwritten by updates)

<code>url.redirect = ( "^/$" => "/admin" )</code>

  * Links:
    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFtWsZ8IP0
    * https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/4eirjz/is_it_possible_to_forward_a_domain_to_the_pihole/

==== Setup sync between two piholes ====
  * Links:
    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFVYe3riDRA

==== Setup High Availability between to piholes ====
  * Links:
    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPfk0qd4xEY
    * https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/d5056q/tutorial_v2_how_to_run_2_pihole_servers_in_ha/
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