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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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[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

I've had pihole running in the past, then Adguard, but moved to NextDNS several years ago and have been happy with it. For a small fee, it removes all need for self hosting your own. I set up profiles for the kids, wife etc, then set the DNS in their phones, tablets, so I know its always working wherever they are. You can set local IPs in it if you want, but I use a reverse proxy for all LAN requests instead.

Only slight issue I've had with it was recently making several quick changes to DNS in Cloudflare, and NextDNS took several hours to propagate which was a PITA at the time.

Edit: I've just seen that they now offer a free tier which they didn't in the past.

[–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] q7mJI7tk1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] ZS@techhub.social 2 points 1 week ago

@q7mJI7tk1 @StopSpazzing This is the way. NextDNS is awesome.

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