pihole Command Examples

Manage the Pi-hole ad-blocking DNS server. More information: https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/pihole-command.

• Check the Pi-hole daemon's status:

pihole status

• Update Pi-hole and Gravity:

pihole {{[-up|updatePihole]}}

• Start or stop the daemon:

pihole {{enable|disable}}

• Update the lists and flush the cache without restarting the DNS server:

pihole reloaddns

• Update the list of ad-serving domains:

pihole {{[-g|updateGravity]}}

• Allow or deny the specified domain:

pihole {{allowlist|denylist}} {{example.com}}

• Search the lists for a domain:

pihole {{[-q|query]}} {{example.com}}

• Open a real-time log of connections:

pihole {{[-t|tail]}}