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A hosts list that Unbound is augmenting within PiHole. The entire core function of PiHole is leveraging Unbound. Without it, it’s a useless GUI. In fact, you can completely ditch PiHole, if you know what you’re doing, and simply run Unbound as a daemon in a minimal container and do exactly what PiHole does with less resources.

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trafficnab@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think I can spare the 55mb of ram my pihole container takes up

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- BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s crazy to read that when my Unbound has a 3 million host size block-list and uses at less than half that amount of RAM.
  
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  - trafficnab@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I need to run a DNS server on a Pentium II system
    
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    BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Or you can leverage that extra RAM to generate more of that weird AI furry porn you enjoy so much.
    
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JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Does this block the sds itself or do I need additional configs?

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- BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  PiHole blocks ad by using Unbound. Additional configs for what?
  
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Like, when I install uBlock it comes with everything it needs. If I run In round does it block ads out of the box or do I need to point it to some list?
    
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    BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Unbound is a high-level DNS server. It needs you to provide it hosts in a list or provide it with regex scripts (for dynamic and more efficient blocking). It can block ads at the DNS level just like PiHole (because that’s literally what PiHole and AdGuard use under the hood, but add their fancy GUIs)
    
    I would avoid it unless you know what you’re doing, and recommend reading the docs on their website and testing/breaking it within a Docker container.
    
    It’s the difference between buying a car from a dealership (PiHole, AdGuard, etc) or building your own from scratch (Unbound). One is very limited, whereas building it and running it yourself you get to do way more than what’s spoon fed to you.
    
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