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title: Pi-hole Origins
description: Software packages used in Pi-hole
last_updated: Sun Jan 13 18:35:14 2019 UTC
---

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

- [`dnsmasq`](https://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html) - a lightweight DNS and DHCP server
- [`curl`](https://curl.haxx.se/) - A command-line tool for transferring data with URL syntax
- [AdminLTE Dashboard](https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/AdminLTE) - premium admin control panel based on Bootstrap 3.x
- [`civetweb`](https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb) -  Embedded C/C++ web server
- [`sqlite3`](https://www.sqlite.org/index.html) - SQL Database engine

