Comment on leng - a fast DNS server with adblocking, built for self-hosting
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 10 months ago
This looks interesting.
So it’s like PiHole, but written in Go, smaller and faster?
Comment on leng - a fast DNS server with adblocking, built for self-hosting
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 10 months ago
This looks interesting.
So it’s like PiHole, but written in Go, smaller and faster?
nico@r.dcotta.eu 10 months ago
Yes (much simpler) and also allows you to specify custom DNS, which is very useful for more advanced self-hosted deployments - this is something PiHole is just not built to address
ShunkW@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How is PiHole not built for custom DNS? It literally has an entire management page for that.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 10 months ago
Last I used PiHole many years back, it was possible to use it as DHCP but not possible to add custom DNS records like TXT, SRV, etc. . Perhaps that’s what OP is trying to solve for?
myogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pinhole has allowed custom local records for a very long time now
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
You can set CNAME and DNS. Not much else I need at home for a reverse proxy.
nico@r.dcotta.eu 10 months ago
Like chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net said - I want to be able to add my own records (SRV, A, CNAME…) so that I can point to the services hosted in my VPN. CoreDNS is good for this but it doesn’t also do adblocking. If PiHole can do this, I don’t know how.
I also don’t need a web UI, DHCP server, and so on: I just want a config file and some prometheus metrics
jherazob@kbin.social 10 months ago
Tangential partial offtopic aside: Unless i'm misunderstanding, you're setting this up behind your home router and allowing it on your various devices using a VPN. Am i right? Any details, or even better, guides, on how to replicate this setup? I guess the DNS records on Leng are to be able to call services inside your home LAN by name instead of IPs, which is a nice quality of life upgrade.