Thanks for this great guide. I have an older router that isn't supported by OpenWRT but I was able to track down a build of dd-wrt for it. I assume it should be able to do the same with it as well. Have you considered blocking DNS over TLS with a firewall rule on port 853? That way devices need to use your Pihole.
PiHole in an OpenWRT installation? Hey folks, I used to run PiHole on an Raspberry Pi and that worked great. For various reasons I don’t anymore and tried the adblock plug-in to OpenWRT. Enabled all the options (running on X86-64 with 8GB of ram so no issues there) - but it’s not even close to PiHole when it comes to blocking ads.
09.06.2021 · From your OpenWrt web control panel which happens to be on this address https://192.168.1.1 in my case. Please proceed from the menu above to Network > Interfaces where you should find this: Our target for this …
As we managed our own router firmware using OpenWrt, you need to tell your router to send Pi-hole IP 192.168.11.20 as DNS-server to client. Go to Interfaces >> ...
15.01.2017 · Starting a feature request to spread PiHole to routers. Many users of powerful routers run modified firmware such as Tomato, MerlinWRT, DD-WRT or OpenWRT. Many of the supported routers have enough processing power available to run piHole and some testing has been done (see here Run PiHole directly on Asus-Merlin/DD-WRT Router - #5 by jonesaaronj). …