Very recently I felt one of my virtual machines is infected by malware and I was thinking about restoring it to a clean snapshot but then I thought let’s find other ways to identify and block these types of attacks. There were few more issue I wanted to resolve on my network which includes blocking of advertisements on the pages I visit, blocking all malicious IOC over the network, etc, one of the game BattleField 4 which I play on PS4 wasn’t able to connect to online gaming due to blocking of DNS at ISP, etc.

I started doing my research where I found discovered “Pi-Hole”, Basically Pi-Hole is a network-wide Advertisement blocking solution (DNS Server) that can be installed on a virtual machine or on your own hardware e.g RaspberryPI 3 in my case.

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