The original post: /r/pihole by /u/srkrishnaiyer on 2025-01-19 22:23:55.

I’ve given up after trying various things to address slow DNS resolution issues with pihole running on docker containers on Windows. I mean ad-blocking and all is working but Websites load very slow or sometimes don’t load at all with Pihole set as DNS server.

Things I have tried include running pihole with default adlist, disabling rate limit, allocating more memory (RAM), trying with/without unbound, other best practices etc. but no luck. Now, I’m mulling over whether a dedicated pi will make a difference.

Note: my host machine is very good in terms of configuration so I procrastinated wanting to run pihole on containers on Windows but the internet performance is not as desired. When I say internet performance it’s the dns resolution. Any suggestions or thoughts?

Thanks.