I don’t believe pihole functions as an authorative DNS server though. Something like technetium does and they could be used as the nameservers for a domain while still offering all the same adblocking functionality that pihole does.
Though pihole could work of you were relying on a VPN to access your stuff remotely.
Sure but this won’t work if you’re accessing services outside your network like OP is doing. You’re going to need publicly available DNS records somewhere to do that.
At that point DNS is handled by whatever network you’re on. Since that not always under your control, hosting a private VPN (and setting DNS though that) is the way to go.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I don’t believe pihole functions as an authorative DNS server though. Something like technetium does and they could be used as the nameservers for a domain while still offering all the same adblocking functionality that pihole does.
Though pihole could work of you were relying on a VPN to access your stuff remotely.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 1 day ago
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Those are not authoritative responses, though. You can only add CNAME and A records to pihole, because it’s built on dnsmasq and not on bind/unbound.
You can’t add SOA records to pihole. Or zone transfers, or any actual DNS server functions, really. Pihole is just a forwarder.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Sure but this won’t work if you’re accessing services outside your network like OP is doing. You’re going to need publicly available DNS records somewhere to do that.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 1 day ago
You’re, right, I misread the post.
At that point DNS is handled by whatever network you’re on. Since that not always under your control, hosting a private VPN (and setting DNS though that) is the way to go.