Didn't know where exactly to post this, as its a Linux, Mystic & Raspberry Pi question...

I *was* running a Pi-Hole (Removes some/most adverts from the internet -
altho it doesn't do a great job on YouTube, on other spaces like CNN or FaceBook it works 100%...) on my Home Assistant box.

Recently, I tried TwisterOS for the Raspberry Pi 4- which, if you haven't checked out yet, is an awesome OS that focuses on box86 and running Linux software designed for x86 systems. It is well put together, has great themes and some good scripting and software for retro gaming on the RPi.

Anyway, one of the scripts included was to setup a Pi-Hole... it was quick, easy, and as most Pi-Hole installs it ended at a web console that was
standard Pi-Hole setup.

MY QUESTION:

Do you forsee any issue with running a Pi-Hole on my Mystic BBS Raspberry Pi box? Since this box runs 24/7, it would be a good place for Pi-Hole to
live... (As my smart home grows, I either need to switch to a stronger system than a Pi, or at least not have other additions running on the box... I need all the RPi's power for Home Assistant alone.)

I think the BBS & Pi-Hole would run fine on an RPi 4 w/ 1gb RAM... if not
I'll just throw a bigger RAM Pi at it.

Any of you running a Pi-Hole side by side with Mystic? It becomes a DNS
server to that IP address, would this interfere with my BBS? (I use SSH and Telnet so I figured it could work.)

Thanks for any discussions around this topic. w00t w00t!!!



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Hey Paulie

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:49:00 GMT
paulie420 wrote:

MY QUESTION:

Do you forsee any issue with running a Pi-Hole on my Mystic BBS Raspberry Pi box? Since this box runs 24/7, it would be a good place for Pi-Hole to live... (As my smart home grows, I either need to switch to a stronger system than a Pi, or at least not have other additions running on the box... I need all the RPi's power for Home Assistant alone.)

I wouldn't run pi-hole and a bbs on the same system, but I generally wouldn't run more than one major service on any system regardless of what it was, I prefer having a system that does just one job
and does it well. Each time you add services to a box, whether it physical or virtual, you introduce extra vectors for things to go wrong.

If it were me, I'd have a pi for pi-hole and a pi for the bbs, but you don't have to run pi-hole or your bbs on a pi, I run my pi-hole in a vm on my home virtualisation server, as I do for my bbs,
they're separate systems, so neither interferes with the other, and also the bbs is isolated away from other systems so if it got pwned, which is
unlikely, but if it did, nothing else would be
contaminated and pwned with it.

having your dns resolver on your bbs system has other implications if pwned too, like dns injection possibilities etc, you could have your entire
internet hijacked from inside and be none the wiser
lol.

That's my 2 cents worth anyway =)

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Best regards,
MeaTLoTioN

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I wouldn't run pi-hole and a bbs on the same system, but I generally wouldn't run more than one major service on any system regardless of
what it was, I prefer having a system that does just one job
and does it well. Each time you add services to a box, whether it
physical or virtual, you introduce extra vectors for things to go wrong.

If it were me, I'd have a pi for pi-hole and a pi for the bbs, but you don't have to run pi-hole or your bbs on a pi, I run my pi-hole in a vm
on my home virtualisation server, as I do for my bbs,
they're separate systems, so neither interferes with the other, and also the bbs is isolated away from other systems so if it got pwned, which is unlikely, but if it did, nothing else would be
contaminated and pwned with it.

having your dns resolver on your bbs system has other implications if pwned too, like dns injection possibilities etc, you could have your entire internet hijacked from inside and be none the wiser
lol.

That's my 2 cents worth anyway =)

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Best regards,
MeaTLoTioN

No, thats great advise. And I have enough little machines to doso... I have a Pi Zeron I can run the Pi-Hole on.. and, I understand what you stated about
VMs too... I got what you're saying. :P TBH, if I pushed anything to a VM it would be my Home Assistant instance.. as you add more smart home devices, and different scenes/automations I need more and more power to run all the nodes and automation scenes...

But cool, that is smart and point taken... Pi Zero for Pi-Hole coming up. :P It'll take a little bit of cpu responsibility off my Home Assistant box. Thanks.



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