Alternative to pi-hole reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- junialter 路 2023-10-31 23:49 I've tried multiple times to run pihole in my network. I really like it because it has nice features like * colorful statistics * IPv6 support * individual filters that can be mapped to the different source IP ranges * adblocks of course There are two things that really annoy me though. 1. I'm getting weird kind of timeouts. Sometimes huge parts of my devices become unresponsive because pihole doesn't seem to be responding. I've increased the rate of how many queries to process in a minute but that only helped partially 2. It doesn't come with a sync mechanism. Yeah I know there are third party solutions and I tested both, but after some time they stopped working very well. So what I'm asking you guys is if you know a good dns cache that I can run and maybe keep in sync config-wise via Ansible. Other than that it should be able to filter ads and other custom lists of course. Thanks in advance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Salzig 路 2023-10-31 23:59 Feel you. Did you try [https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome](https://githu b.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome) ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MisterBazz 路 2023-11-01 00:03 Technitium. I've been using it for nearly 2 years now and really enjoy it above everything else. It also does DHCP. The only thing it doesn't do for me (yet) is DHCP6. The dev said it's on their radar, but not a priority. Maybe next year? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- adamshand 路 2023-11-01 00:10 I've using AdGuardHome + AdGuardSync for most of a year and (so far 馃馃徎馃馃徎馃馃徎) it's been flawless. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AnApexBread 路 2023-11-01 00:45 AdGuardHome ---------------------------------------------------------------------- waeking 路 2023-11-01 01:20 I run a pihole stack with unbound for dns cache and stubby for dns over tls. I am looking into a dnsmasq server in between pihole and unbound that will update local dns with labels from my docker-compose files. That would complete me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thekrautboy 路 2023-11-01 02:14 > Pihole has a cache built in. I disable it because unbound has a cache as well. Just fyi https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/h0cwms/to_cache_or_n ot_to_cache_that_is_the_question/ftlmiqv/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SqlJames 路 2023-11-01 04:52 https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky It鈥檚 what I use ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bufandatl 路 2023-11-01 08:07 I run three piholes with gravity sync and have none of the problems you describe. But pihole isn鈥檛 big magic it鈥檚 basically a dnsmasq with some management stuff around it. you could host a dnsmasq yourself and just fill the filter rules in the config file your self with ansible. The adliges are publicly available just get them with Ansible and parse them into a dnsmasq config template. Here is an blog about it. https://alblue.bandlem.com/2020/05/using-dnsmasq.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- root-node 路 2023-11-01 15:03 I run two pi-holes with [gravity- sync](https://github.com/vmstan/gravity-sync) between them and have done for ages. Never had an issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CGA1 路 2023-11-01 21:19 I agree, switched from Pihole a year ago and couldn't be happier.