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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would someone pick PiHole over say a customized NextDNS on your router?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NextDNS doesn't support unlimited DNS query for free, I think.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's a good point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Little of column A little of column B.

I use pihole on the LAN, then upstream is cloudflared translating DNS to DOH using NextDNS as the primary and Quad9 as the fallback.

Looking at the last 24hrs; my whole LAN network has made 91k DNS requests, 14.5% of that being passed to the upstream (the rest is locally cached responses or blocked) so ~12.7k served by NextDNS. When/if that 300k limit is reached, cloudflared will just fallback to Quad9.

With this I get the blocking from NextDNS as well as whatever additional lists I want to use; plus pihole serves local only records for self-hosted services and fixed names for LAN devices (I find standard broadcasted hostnames unreliable at best).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thank you. That's incredibly insightful. When I get the cash I'll setup a PiHole