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Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Re: Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Post by jeroenhd »

vezycash wrote: post #18
tuananh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is private DNS?

My explanation was wrong... Google support page explation for private DNS doesn't explain anything. Just recommends leaving it on.

It's more than that, private DNS is not just a different DNS server, it's a DNS over TLS (DoT) server. This means encrypting the lookups to prevent the ISP from tracking the host names you visit.

Many DNS servers don't support DoT and some support DoH (DNS over HTTPS) instead.

Re: Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Post by tuananh »

vezycash wrote: post #18
tuananh wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is private DNS?

My explanation was wrong... Google support page explation for private DNS doesn't explain anything. Just recommends leaving it on.

> Private DNS allows you to set the DNS server the phone should use instead of your ISP's.

iOS does support that.

Re: Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Post by hnarn »

I've been using https://nextdns.io/ for a while and I really like it. You can do DNS over HTTPS through Firefox (sadly not on an OS level in Windows for example, but that's fine -- I'm sure OS level support works better on Linux), and it supports a lot of user-level customization. You can add and remove entire blocklists, you can black/white-list specific domains, see logs of your blocks, some analytics, create your own redirects etc. and it doesn't cost you a thing. The main website does a pretty good job of explaining the selling points.

You can use it as-is but if you want user-specific configuration you'll get a custom URL that looks something like "https://dns.nextdns.io/c8g88a", and whatever comes in that way will use your settings and will be logged as per your configuration (of course, you can disable logging).

Re: Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Post by Eikon »

bauerd wrote: post #17
tuananh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i couldn't think of an use case for this? can you explain what would you use this for? if you already have pihole?

When you don't control DHCP (or the network as a whole)

You don’t have to control DHCP in order to use Pihole. Supplying custom nameservers at the os-level works too, as it should be.

Re: Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Post by notRobot »

xtf wrote: post #23

Network Wide > Pi-hole Browser > Ublock Local System > hosts-file Android (root) > Adaway (does hosts-file)

Can confirm. I use or have used all of these. Work beautifully.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I've heard that NextDNS is the way to go on iOS.

Re: Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Post by swinglock »

Who is this for, what's the point?

If you're using a computer on which installing this software is an alternative, you can install a web browser with an ad blocker, which performs much better than DNS based filters.

If you're not using such a computer, Pi-Hole proves DNS filtering and this software doesn't.

What's the use-case between these two that isn't already covered?

Re: Maza – Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system

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Post by t0astbread »

swinglock wrote: post #29

Who is this for, what's the point? If you're using a computer on which installing this software is an alternative, you can install a web browser with an ad blocker, which performs much better than DNS based filters. If you're not using such a computer, Pi-Hole proves DNS filtering and this software doesn't. What's the use-case between these two that isn't already covered?

Software that's not running in a web browser but on a machine where you can install a local DNS proxy.

It's not a broad use case but it's also really cheap to do and doesn't have a lot of maintenance cost.

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