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Was mostly joking around. I know cars, guns, and um, Pi are your hobbies right now. Oh forgot the trespasser.
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I started to set up pi-hole, but my modem/router requires two DNS servers, and hell if I was going to set up another pi-hole just for that. I tossed it and just use my ridiculously large HOSTS file. 
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Just set the second (backup) one to your existing DNS server. Won't it use the primary Pi-Hole one if available and only use the other one if the Pi crashes?
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That's what I do too. It's over 620KB now.
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The problem with using a hosts file on the local box is that it only works for that box. I have 12 computers/devices to manage at home, and I don't want to run a marathon to update the hosts file all the time. The pi-hole device is a centralized spot for doing it.
If you want to use a single raspberry pi, you could set up a pi-hole on the pi, and then create a virt8ual machine on the same pi and install pi-hole in that VM. Of course, that's kinda stupid because it defeats the high-availability characteristic of having a separate secondary server that will kick in when the primary goes sideways on you.
On the other hand, you can simply use the primary IP of the DNS server that pi-hole was using as your secondary DNS, but that won't filter ads, and that's the reason I just got anther pi to serve as secondary.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Just an update.
My modem/router is SO smart, that if I put pi-hole in as the primary DNS and put Google in as the secondary DNS, it sees that Pi-hole is local...so it uses the secondary.
But no matter, I can't get two virtual switches to run at the same time, so I can't have my Windows VM and my Linux VM running at the same time, anyway.
Someday, I'll stand up a real box and run pi-hole on it. Or get a different modem/router that isn't so "helpful".
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I'm the one who suggested Pi-hole to you a week or two ago--nice follow-up.
All I can add at this point is that I'm not as sophisticated a network admin as you are. You're right about a secondary DNS--if the Pi-hole machine goes down (a VM in my case)--like the power going out--and I forget to power the host back on, ads will still manage to sneak in until I remember to power the VM back up.
Other than that--it certainly suits my needs well enough I can say that for me, it's the closest "set and forget" piece of software I've used in a while.
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Monstrous beast removes the tail of beheaded insect (8)
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Yes, that was a bit easier, wasn't it?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Glad to hear it...
I will put this one in the "was too easy" list. One day I will strike the perfect balance in difficulty level.
My life long dream is to provide a clue that takes 3h59m to solve.
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You may get it: pkfox is still in the dark (and about to be eaten by a grue, I suspect)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sounds grue-some...
I can't play tomorrow so one of you best spit it out quick!
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Quote: The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.
Often found in QA.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Can't see it ( probably going too deep ) I see it now
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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pkfox wrote: probably going too deep
I'm glad I am not the only one that has that problem... 
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I do it with everything even after all these years in IT I still overcomplicate things when programming - not for tech sake but because it takes me a long time to see the woods from the trees - then comes the lightbulb moment 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Then I'll save answering it until you find the light switch!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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it's dark in here 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Monstrous beast
removes the tail of beheaded BEHEaded
insect MOTH BEHEMOTH
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I never doubted you would step in to save the day... honestly
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I just wanted to give the others a chance! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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For the love of god turn the sound on - Album on Imgur[^]
Interesting sound.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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That's one odd cat. Are we certain it was a cat with a "c" not a bat with a "b"? 
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