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Part 3 In the previous two parts, I demonstrated setting up a VirtualBox VM environment and installing CentOS 7 minimal on a test VM.  I covered some of the details around VM sizing and network configuration along the way.  Now in this post, I'll cover the details of installing and configuring the Pi-Hole software itself on your test VM.  If you have questions or issues, please post them in the comments and I'll follow up to try and help you out. Installing Pi-Hole Boot up your CentOS 7 VM and log in as root. Now type the following to launch the Pi-Hole installer: curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash This command gives the Pi-Hole installer full access to the bash command shell, allowing it to have full control of your VM.  It is certainly a questionable method to install software, but it is simple and fast, and for the purposes of this demonstration, we can feel free to use it to quickly set up our system. The first thing that we se...

Part 2 In the last post, I demonstrated the setup of  Virtual Box  to get a test environment ready for a  Pi-Hole  service running on a  CentOS 7  VM.   I discussed Pi-Hole in an earlier post , and a few scenarios that might make it an interesting configuration to use if you intend to block ads for your home or small business network.  The larger your network, the more likely you would be to want to run this on a  dedicated piece of hardware like a PFSense Firewall , but even for small networks this software can be run off a  $35 Raspberry Pi  making it a very interesting project for a networking hobbyist or security enthusiast.  Hopefully with my guide, even an entry level enthusiast can follow along and get some positive results on their own.  Be sure to let me know in the comments if you try this out and what sort of experience you had! Installing Cent OS 7 CentOS 7 Cent OS 7 has a minimal distribution ...