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.
stratself@lemdro.id 7 hours ago
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
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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
Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
AdGuard Home is free. I’m running 2 redundant docker containers on separate hosts with adguard sync all for free.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Yup, I have it installed in my OPNSense and together they make a fucking fortress