Comment on Self hosted DNS

• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Egonallanon@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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