See my article on installing Bastille if you would like more detailed explanations for any of these things.

The following command tells Bastille to create a jail named adguardhome using FreeBSD 13.1 at the IP address 10.4.4.4 on the loopback network bastille0. Use the following command to download and bootstrap the AdGuard Home template. Bastille comes with some nifty templates, and in this guide I’ll use a template for AdGuard Home to set up a whole-home adblocker.Ĭreate a Pi-Hole using FreeBSD and AdGuard Home In a previous article, I installed Bastille to manage jails. Let’s see if we can make this work without Linux. The script does all the configuration for you and receives updates. That shouldn’t be too hard because Pi-Hole is just dnsmasq with a big list of domains pointed to localhost, but the big advantage of Pi-Hole is the convenience. Now that I’ve switched my Pi over to FreeBSD I’ll have to come up with a new solution. Unfortunately, Pi-Hole isn’t available for FreeBSD. The advantage of a caching DNS server is that it speeds up your browsing by eliminating that last step. This means that it saves the DNS entries after you have visited a site so it doesn’t have to make that extra step later. Pi-Hole works as a caching DNS server, too, since that’s what dnsmasq is usually used for. If the Pi-Hole doesn’t block it, it will query a public DNS server to look up the domain for you (Cloudflare, Google, etc.). Your computer will never communicate with the servers that provide ads. First you computer will check to see if the Pi-Hole resolves (points to the IP address) a domain. A Pi-Hole is a local DNS server that you use instead. Usually, your DNS server is provided by your ISP and you’re not even aware of it. Your browser goes to the IP address and then asks for the content.

When a website tries to load something from, say,, normally your computer will connect to a DNS server that translates the web url to an IP address. Technically, Pi-Hole is just a script that installs and configures dnsmasq and loads a bunch of domains to block at the DNS level. I originally purchased my Raspberry Pi to run Pi-Hole, which functions as a whole-house ad-blocker. Pi-Hole with FreeBSD using AdGuard Home.Bastille Jail Management on Raspberry Pi.Home Server with Raspberry Pi & FreeBSD.

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