====== 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 ====
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
==== Install SSH Server ====
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
==== Create ssh-rsa key auth ====
* In home directory mkdir .ssh
* authorized_keys file needs to have keys in them. Copy over from harddrive, external drive, or create them.
* When making keys on clients ssh-keygen -t rsa
* 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: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
* 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 Authsudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_configUsePAM yes
PasswordAuthentication no
==== Reboot ====
sudo reboot -h now
==== Install Pi-hole ====
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
* 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 pihole -a -p password
==== Install Unbound ====
sudo apt-get install unbound
* write config file
sudo vim /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/pi-hole.conf
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
==== 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)
url.redirect = ( "^/$" => "/admin" )
* 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/