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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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[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

And how do you fix the problem with applications that have hard coded dns?

[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (7 children)

If you're referring to network based DNS, I use their script to have it on my Ubiquiti router as well. I have that with its own profile with full blocking for iot etc.

I had PiHole with unbound on my OPNsense way back when, but the internet just needs to work for both me and my family and not go offline with me tinkering with the homelab. NextDNS takes all of that hassle out of the equation.

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks. How do you like your ubiquiti?

[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I love it. I started with pFsense, then really liked Untangle for its ease of use, then went (back) to OPNsense and preferred that for the fact it could run Caddy internally as a reverse proxy and was fast, but I was a bit frustrated at wanting to do more with it and needing to research everything. I already had Unifi APs and decided that it just made sense to have a Ubiquiti router. I've found it stable, easy to use with good feature updates, and have also just paid for the annual Cybersecure add-on which is reporting loads.

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