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Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by poisonborz »

cookiengineer wrote: post #5
poisonborz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You want to reach your self-hosted services within your network easier.

How about using the etc hosts file? (Had to remove the slash to pass through cloudflare block)

Only for desktop OS, also do you update each hosts file on every client whenever something changes?

Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by poisonborz »

cookiengineer wrote: post #7
russelg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is only a viable option for a device running a desktop OS. How am I going to do that on an iPhone, or for my TV?

I get your point, but this is already solved in a much easier manner with an OprnWRT router (and GUI etc) and kind of a strawman's argument using DNS for that. OpenWRT comes out of the box even with social website toggles that require no configuration. Granted, you still have to install OpenWRT, but I still think that running a root DNS isn't necessary for home setups.

Where the DNS server lives is a detail. What is a "root DNS"?

Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by privacyking »

Alifatisk wrote: post #2

Isn’t self-hosting a dns server kind off pointless if you are the only user? Like doesn’t that make you unique to tracking?

No. I use adguardhome to act as a private DNS for my android devices. It's the best way to get both DNS for self hosted services AND DNS filtering to remove tracking and ads in all android apps.

Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by mianos »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #13

Why this instead of the very widely-deployed PiHole or NextDNS?

I went from piHole running in a container to this. All those weird spinners on youtube and unexplained confusing issues went away. This thing is awesome. The functionality is massive. It is like going from Openwrt to mikrotik. The only thing I find disturbing is, being a .net app, htop shows it using 100s of gigs of ram. I don't know what is going on with that, as it runs well and does not add any load to the host. Apparently it is normal dotnet thing.

Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by koolba »

cookiengineer wrote: post #5
poisonborz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You want to reach your self-hosted services within your network easier.

How about using the etc hosts file? (Had to remove the slash to pass through cloudflare block)

> Had to remove the slash to pass through cloudflare block

I was going to write: You can’t write a comment with the text / etc / hosts?!

But I tried it and got the CloudFlare block page. That’s pretty incredible that a tech focused forum blocks you for simply referencing a common file on all Unix file systems. What state a sad future we live in.

Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by ErneX »

cookiengineer wrote: post #5
poisonborz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You want to reach your self-hosted services within your network easier.

How about using the etc hosts file? (Had to remove the slash to pass through cloudflare block)

Not possible on some devices.

Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by ErneX »

Alifatisk wrote: post #2

Isn’t self-hosting a dns server kind off pointless if you are the only user? Like doesn’t that make you unique to tracking?

Not at all, I have multiple sites I need to reach locally that each have their own domain on my local network, DNS is the perfect solution for that.

Re: Technitium DNS Server: Self host a DNS server for privacy and security

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Post by twsted »

mianos wrote: post #16
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #13

Why this instead of the very widely-deployed PiHole or NextDNS?

I went from piHole running in a container to this. All those weird spinners on youtube and unexplained confusing issues went away. This thing is awesome. The functionality is massive. It is like going from Openwrt to mikrotik. The only thing I find disturbing is, being a .net app, htop shows it using 100s of gigs of ram. I don't know what is going on with that, as it runs well and does not add any load to the host. A…

Not .net: Shell, PHP and C.

And about 150M of virtual memory on my rpi.

Edit: Argh, I thought you meant pihole, sorry for the confusion

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