Pi-hole being a advertising-aware DNS/Web server, makes use of the following technologies:

  • dnsmasq - a lightweight DNS and DHCP server
  • curl - A command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax
  • lighttpd - web server designed and optimized for high performance
  • php - a popular general-purpose web scripting language
  • AdminLTE Dashboard - premium admin control panel based on Bootstrap 3.x
  • sqlite3 - SQL Database engine

While quite outdated at this point, this original blog post about Pi-hole goes into great detail about how Pi-hole was originally set up and how it works. Syntactically, it's no longer accurate, but the same basic principles and logic still apply to Pi-hole's current state.

Last update: December 3, 2022