Subj : Re: RPi 4, Mystic BBS & Pi-Hole???
To   : All
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Thu Aug 27 2020 12:53:24

Hey Paulie

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:49:00 GMT
paulie420 wrote:

> MY QUESTION:
> 
> Do you forsee any issue with running a Pi-Hole on my Mystic BBS Raspberry Pi
> box? Since this box runs 24/7, it would be a good place for Pi-Hole to
> live... (As my smart home grows, I either need to switch to a stronger system
> than a Pi, or at least not have other additions running on the box... I need
> all the RPi's power for Home Assistant alone.) 

I wouldn't run pi-hole and a bbs on the same system, but I generally wouldn't
run more than one major service on any system regardless of what it was, I
prefer having a system that does just one job
and does it well. Each time you add services to a box, whether it physical or
virtual, you introduce extra vectors for things to go wrong.

If it were me, I'd have a pi for pi-hole and a pi for the bbs, but you don't
have to run pi-hole or your bbs on a pi, I run my pi-hole in a vm on my home
virtualisation server, as I do for my bbs,
they're separate systems, so neither interferes with the other, and also the
bbs is isolated away from other systems so if it got pwned, which is
unlikely, but if it did, nothing else would be
contaminated and pwned with it.

having your dns resolver on your bbs system has other implications if pwned
too, like dns injection possibilities etc, you could have your entire
internet hijacked from inside and be none the wiser
lol.

That's my 2 cents worth anyway =)

-- 
Best regards,
MeaTLoTioN

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