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Beyond Pi-Hole (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by gblues@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been using pi-hole for the last 3 or 4 years and I'm pretty satisfied with it. Now I'm thinking about the next step. Nowadays I have my local network and a tailscale to access my hosts. I'm thinking about a DNS solutions to solve the names on the locla network and thru tailscale simultanely, while been able to block ads on DNS like pi-hole do. What do you think would be a better solution for this next step? I've only used bind before, but I think and old dog can learn a new trick.

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[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Technitium, for that purpose. You can set up DNS records easily and it still has blocking like pi-hole. You can log DNS requests if you need to track down where certain requests are coming from or which devices are making lots of requests. It has quite a few features but I only need a couple.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, came here to write about Technitium. It is rock solid. Absolutely. It looks intimidating at first but you soon figure out you hardly need 10% of the options in the beginning.

But it's so rock solid and good..

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Technitium for about 3 years and I'm with you.

Whenever I think I get it, I search for the solution to a problem I'm having and see the developer respond and feel like I get less than half the things in the explanation. My setup definitely works and it has never failed me... but there are a lot of things where I don't understand why at all and yeah I am also using maybe 10% of the options available. I'm not sure I'll ever get past the intimidating phase.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 4 points 10 months ago

I have expanded my setup over the years. And tbh, I reached so many stages where I read up how pi-hole or adguard achieved this and that. And every time it was like "damn,if you want more than the basics they are actually more complicated. I just have to look up this and this and Technitium does it by the book.". That's so refreshing.