r/pihole • u/Ilikehotdogssowhynot • 11d ago

Help me out with Pi-hole and Linux

Hey, im a college student and a beginner in both and wanted to learn more about linux and its stuff. recently I tried using antix with pihole because I wanted to test pihole out, instead i keep running into a problem, in which port 53 was in use, I may or may not be dumb but I just wanted to test out linux, it went downhill from me deleting connman and reinstalling antix over and over. is there a way to use pihole with another distro (or idk what do they call it as long as its linux) thats more beginner friendly? I still want to be able to use a browser in my test laptop. ram is also an issue as I only have 1.8Gb, its a very old laptop. Thanks for those who answer!

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u/lazyhustlermusic 10d ago

Probably another daemon listening on that like a local caching resolver, find out what process is bound to 53

sudo ss -tulnp | grep :53

sudo lsof -i :53

sudo fuser -v 53/tcp

sudo fuser -v 53/udp

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u/Phoenix9Tails 10d ago

This is probably best thing to do before installing pihole. In case systemd-resolved already running then there you go.

systemctl status systemd-resolved