Yes! It has a firewall! :D

Turning it off yielded the same results :(

Ping works only by IP address. Pinging a hostname gives me Temporary failure in name resolution

Dig gives me SERVFAIL but at least it’s using the right DNS resolver (the pihole installed on the same computer)

;; SERVER: 192.168.1.102#53(192.168.1.102) (UDP)

and pihole.log is full of

query[A] github.com from 192.168.1.102
2025-08-xxx forwarded github.com to 127.0.0.1#5335
2025-08-xxx forwarded github.com to 127.0.0.1#5335
2025-08-xxx reply error is SERVFAIL

Trying to update gravity on the pihole browser dashboard (which at least works) gives me

try to update gravity

  [✗] DNS resolution is currently unavailable
  [i] Waiting up to 120 seconds for DNS resolution............

But I wonder what it means that all queries are coming from a client named pihole. On other installations it just shows the client as their local IP address.

Client:  pi.hole 192.168.1.102
Query Status:  Forwarded, reply from 127.0.0.1#5335
Reply:  SERVFAIL

Thanks for your help!

No, it wasn’t that :/

The other thing that’s strange is that it all queries are coming from the client pihole:

Client:  pi.hole <local IP address>

Query Status:  Forwarded, reply from 127.0.0.1#5335

Reply:  SERVFAIL

The pihole is installed on the same computer that it’s supposed to be the DNS resolver for (no access to router). I followed the instructions to the tee when installing pihole + unbound from the pihole website, but for some reason it’s not working. All queries get SERVFAIL :/

Oh yea, excellent point. I’ll have to check that out next time, thanks.

Huh. I guess they didn’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps after all.

/s (big time)

lmao cold hearted

Ok thanks, I’ll check it out.

Thanks. Extensions like CanvasBlocker probably mess with the JS, could that be what’s making me get blocked?

Yes! This works, thanks!

Nearly all the media I consume is text based and works without JS.

Yea, well, I bet you still jerk off manually

Does FreeTube work for you? It gives me “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” for every single video. It might work without VPN but I’m not interested enough to try.

It sounds like you’re over-doing something like JS blocking. You have to find a balance.

Wisely put and I suspect you’re right, but if it’s really just about using a VPN I feel like, “Well why do you want to know my IP address so bad?”. I did do the JS blocking trick for a totally unusable web experience but now I allow JS and it’s just a widely unusable web experience ¯\(ツ)/¯

Edit: doesn’t lemmy.world block people from posting through a VPN?

Yes, for me yt-dlp went from working to error 404 to working to error 403 :/

Thanks, I’ll look into LibRedirect.

Edit: it has that scary “Access your data for all websites” permission…

Yes, it seems wrong that now Google, one of the biggest companies of all time and one under a hostile regime, controls access to knowledge and information that individuals all around the world have worked together to compile over decades. Looking back now that we know about enshitification, we should have been more careful.

Are children throwing rocks counted as militants? And how are military reserves counted, are they considered civilians or militants, since, in the case of Israel, they have a uniform and weapon nearby to be ready to be called into service? Are reserves counted differently in times of peace vs. when a declaration of war has been made?