Comment on Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 8 hours agoIn what way(s)?
It’s a more complete dns server. You can more easily do dns over https, set up zones, and custom dns entries are a lot easier imo.
In summary it’s more focused on being dns, the ad blocking is a feature on top. You also don’t have to manually configure unbound for recursive dns like you do pi hole. Etc etc
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 hours ago An ONT failure has me fiddling with my network this weekend and I might do this. Pihole is okay but having more power would be great.
Oh. I guess if you just want dead simple ad blocking, pi hole is still the way
I’d prefer Adguard Home. Does the same thing but also supports encrypted DoT/DoQ/DoH upstreams. And the UI looks a bit neater for me
AdGuard looks like a paid SaaS service though? No way am I paying for someone else running a device on my network, no friggin way
Yeah but what you will eventually find, if reliability matters at all to you, is that the pihole isn’t the best for this. For one, many run on an SD card, which isn’t really stable long-term (I started here and had to fix it due to SD card corruption quite a few times). Second, you don’t have a backup. DNS not running when your machines depend on it equals an immediate outage across ALL devices (as long as you have it configured at your router level, which you should be doing, right?).
Technitium (and others) solve this problem gracefully.
I started with pihole (ad blocking) and unbound (recursive DNS), and that was a pain to set up properly.
Moved do technitium (which offers all of these in one package) plus the ability to natively cluster a second instance (so you have a backup load balanced instance for this critical service)
The best part is that setting it up if you have an old laptop or desktop running docker is incredibly simple. I had two nodes up and running clustered in less than 15 minutes. Took less time than setting up one pihole.
If you don’t have docker it may take more time, but that’s the slippery slope of setting up a homelab and running services like this.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The main way is it has a built in recursive DNS server so you don’t have to duct tape Pi Hole and Ubound together