add blocking on powerMacs

[powermi]

Hi, Im gonna to use a powermac G4 as file/backups server and, as I have a raspberry pi running Pihole on it, I wonder if there is any way of running it on the G4 so I could use the rPi for other things.
any experience with Pihole or others addblokers for the home network on powerPc? thanks.

 

[eyoungren]

Well…

There's Glimmer Blocker

There's setting your router's DNS to a add free DNS.

There is using uMatrix in TenFourFox.

At what level exactly are you trying to block ads?

 

[wicknix]

This is what i, and many others use on our machines. https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm It will block ads system-wide (not just in the browser like browser extensions do).

Cheers

 

[2984839]

Do you mean to block ads on just the Power Mac or do you want the Power Mac to serve as an adblocker for the entire network?

 

[powermi]

Thanks, I would like to block ads at dns level for the entire network, that's what pinhole does.
Don't know if will be possible.

 

[2984839]

The absolute easiest way would be to skip the Power Mac and just set your router's DNS servers to AdGuard's DNS service: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

PiHole is just a DNS server with a blocklist. Someone who knows these old versions of OS X could tell you better than I about what DNS servers are available for them, but if you're open to running Linux or BSD, this would be fairly easy to setup yourself.

 

[Project Alice]

PiHole only runs on certain Linux OS's and not on PPC. You could possibly have a chance at installing Linux on it, and seeing if PiHole would compile on the Mac, but I don't think it's very likely. I would bet that Leopard is even too old as far as dependencies go.

Theres also this; but this wouldn't work very well either IMO. I actually use pfSense, and have adblocking set up on it, but it also functions as a router and firewall. The powermac would probably not be powerful enough for all of that even if you got it to run. My pfSense box has an i5. I actually tried using one as a firewall\router using Leopard server, and while it worked I could barely pull 10-15mbps whereas my connection is ~400.

Personally if you want Pihole, I would just go buy another Pi. They aren't particularly expensive. Either get a lesser one for PiHole which doesn't use much for resources even on a Pi, or get a better one for whatever else you want it for and keep your current PiHole setup.

 

[powermi]

Thanks for the replies, I think for the moment I'll stick with the piHole, maybe just use the Powermac as file server and torrent downloader.

 

[2984839]

So here's an option for you. I used to use this all the time and it does a good job: https://github.com/conformal/adsuck

It does what PiHole does but in a much smaller package. Block lists are configurable. You'd have to compile it yourself but it has an OS X makefile. No idea if it will compile on old versions of OS X.