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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 zokier »

n_plus_1_acc wrote: post #8
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?

Are there any uostream DNS Servers that would allow you to just download the while database and then everything immediately after its TTL runs out? I can image it would be a lot of traffic.

That would be zone transfer and its generally not allowed by DNS servers. And there couldn't be a single DNS server to query from, instead you would need to recursively query all the DNS servers which also is not exactly practical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_zone_transfer

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

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Post by danmur »

twsted wrote: post #20
mianos wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Looks like .net to me: https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer

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

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Post by LtdJorge »

twsted wrote: post #20
mianos wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Technitium IS .NET, you may be referring to PiHole?

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

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Post by zikduruqe »

koolba wrote: post #17
cookiengineer wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Trust me, I just found this out the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38986187

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

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Post by RockRobotRock »

poisonborz wrote: post #4
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?

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

is it bad that i use rfc 1918 addresses on cloudflare dns

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

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Post by balou23 »

n_plus_1_acc wrote: post #8
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?

Are there any uostream DNS Servers that would allow you to just download the while database and then everything immediately after its TTL runs out? I can image it would be a lot of traffic.

You can download the root zone: https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone

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

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Post by somat »

privacyking wrote: post #15
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.

Until the apps figure out dns over http. sigh

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

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Post by petronio »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #27
poisonborz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

is it bad that i use rfc 1918 addresses on cloudflare dns

I find that preferable to trying to get split horizon working reliably enough that data isn't going out to the gateway half the time.
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