Pi-hole v6 • Hacker News Board

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by system7rocks » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 6:57 PM UTC

eamag wrote: post #6

Want to highlight https://nextdns.io/ as a similar service, very happy with it

Same for me.

I had Adguard running on a Pi 2 I think and it died. Couldn’t access my network remotely. Learned my lesson and switched to NextDNS on a bit more solid device.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by zymhan » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

> The web interface has been completely overhauled with settings split into Basic and Expert modes. This allows users to customize their experience based on their comfort level and needs.

This sounds helpful for setting up a Pi-Hole for family or friends that aren't DNS admins by day.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by zymhan » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 6:59 PM UTC

eamag wrote: post #6

Want to highlight https://nextdns.io/ as a similar service, very happy with it

Pi-hole isn't a "service" though. It's just FOSS.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by leca » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

system7rocks wrote: post #11

eamag wrote: post #6

Want to highlight https://nextdns.io/ as a similar service, very happy with it

Same for me. I had Adguard running on a Pi 2 I think and it died. Couldn’t access my network remotely. Learned my lesson and switched to NextDNS on a bit more solid device.

NextDNS is SASS, you can't self-host it.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by whalesalad » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

poisonborz wrote: post #10

eamag wrote: post #6

Want to highlight https://nextdns.io/ as a similar service, very happy with it

Pihole being a self-hosted service and this being a third party one, I would say the target group is somewhat different.

it's more than that - an app running on your internal network is going to have way better latency than nextdns

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by hotpocket777 » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #4

Does anyone know if pihole is ever going to add DoH or similar support natively? I've had such troubles with cloudflared awhile back that I gave up on DoH, but would love to encrypt those queries.

Assuming doh = dns over http

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by _fat_santa » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:03 PM UTC

Pi-hole is a killer application and I've loved it since I got it setup. One other app I highly recommend to run on your Pi in addition to Pi-hole is Nginx Proxy Manager[1].

[1]: https://nginxproxymanager.com/

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by bangaladore » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:05 PM UTC

piyuv wrote: post #9

bangaladore wrote: post #8

Ironically their website has been hugged to death.

Why is it ironic? They’re not providing load balancing or anything similar

Sorry if the point wasn't clear.

The service/device dedicated to killing connections (blocking dns, whatever) can't/won't serve my connection.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by kmfrk » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:05 PM UTC

Lots of great memories using Pi-hole and messing with RPi. I eventually ended up putting my devices on Tailscale and managing DNS through it, eventually using Mullvad VPN as the exit node.

Pretty good interface, and most people just have to connect using the app. Having a virtual network between devices with dedicated IPs is pretty nice too.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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Post by system7rocks » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 7:08 PM UTC

leca wrote: post #14

system7rocks wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same for me. I had Adguard running on a Pi 2 I think and it died. Couldn’t access my network remotely. Learned my lesson and switched to NextDNS on a bit more solid device.

NextDNS is SASS, you can't self-host it.

Right! When my Pi died, my network didn't look for a backup DNS, so everything became inaccessible. It was weird - probably the classic SD card issue. With NextDNS, while I do use DNS over TLS, if my Synology fails, it just kicks back to regular NextDNS domain name servers.