How to enable pihole management

This guide will show how you can enable pihole.

Figure 1. Pihole management dashboard

Disable pikonek DNS server

To enable pihole, you need to disable first the DNS server of pikonek.

To disable the DNS service for pikonek, go to Services > Dhcp & DNS Service.

Under the DNS tab, uncheck the Enable DNS Service, this will disable pikonek as a DNS server and will act only as a dhcp server.

Hit Save.

Enable pihole DNS server

Two ways to enable pihole

Method 1: Using GUI

To enable pihole, go to Services > Pihole.

Click the Start button and wait for the installation to finish.

Once finished, click the button Go to pihole admin, this will redirect you to the pihole admin page.

For more information on Pihole see their documentation at https://pi-hole.net.

Method 2: Using CLI

Open your command line terminal and type:

pikonek -a --pihole start

This will download and install pihole, wait for the installation to finish.

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