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Re: Pi-hole v6

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I set up pi-hole recently after hearing about it for years. I was kind of surprised at a lack of really basic features (imo): There isn't any kind of "dry run" or "phantom" mode, where requests are not actually blocked, but appear marked in the log UI as "would be blocked". This is super important because I want to see all the things my home network is doing that would be blocked before I actually hit the big red but…

There's also adguard home https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html

It replaced my Pi-hole a long time ago.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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

If only they had a stop blocking function.

FWIW, in my years of using NextDNS I think I've needed to do this only twice. On Macs, the menubar app lets you enable/disable NextDNS. The average HN reader can probably automate switching to a non-blocking profile for a given length of time. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/nextdns-integration-te...

Re: Pi-hole v6

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I love AdGuard Home but the single binary container from a Russian company makes me nervous. I may move to building it myself. Is this criticism unfair?

>Is this criticism unfair? Yes because you judge people by the country they live in. AdGuard has made their stance clear if something like this is important to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/Adguard/comments/t15gr4/announcemen... & https://adguard.com/en/blog/official-response-to-setapp.html

> Yes because you judge people by the country they live in.

This is an extremely uncharitable reading of the preceding comment. The comment is clearly concerned about the national jurisdiction from which the AdGuard binary originates, not the national origin of a human.

American government initiatives against Huawei telecom hardware at critical junctures aren't making a personal statement about Chinese individuals. European regulatory skepticism of American-located cloud services isn't a personal statement about American individuals. Russia and China requiring the on-shoring of data-centers doing business in their internal economies aren't making personal statements about foreigners by doing so.

Whether or not you hold all those governments as roughly equal, none of them mistrusting each others' jurisdictions is "judging people by the country they live in." It is judging the trustworthiness of the governments of those countries. And the people in those countries are inevitably subject to the jurisdictions of the governments that rule them.

If someone actually attacks people on the basis of national origin, have at it, but please don't brow beat individuals for making common-sense risk assessments.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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I've been using AdGuard Home, which does pretty much the same thing, but is slightly better polished, with things like support for DoH and OSs other than Linux. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

Pet peeve: I wish there was an (easy) way of installing Adguard directly on my Dream Machine.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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I set up pi-hole recently after hearing about it for years. I was kind of surprised at a lack of really basic features (imo): There isn't any kind of "dry run" or "phantom" mode, where requests are not actually blocked, but appear marked in the log UI as "would be blocked". This is super important because I want to see all the things my home network is doing that would be blocked before I actually hit the big red but…

I think I'll never buy a smart TV what an ultimate ahole move to put ads in there. It's like the Kindles where you have to read these ads before you can open your book (of course you can pay a 1-time fee). Like buying a movie on YouTube and having to watch ads in it or can't see full res unless you're on an allowed device. If UBO actually stops working on Chrome I'll either leave or use pihole. My cheap android phone…

I am hanging on to my 15 year old Vizio for dear life (With a Roku box). We don't watch much TV anyways. Its just Youtube playing.

I dread the day it dies.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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This actually seems rather nice. Not the same as PiHole but I can see its upsides. One upside I like about PiHole is that I can set it up to distribute the DNS to all my devices. This seems like I have to manually configure each device? ATT doesn't let you set the IPv6 DNS, so I either have to disable IPv6 on the network or setup PiHole to pass IPv6 and the DNS I want to the device.

> This seems like I have to manually configure each device? You don't have to (and I assume most users don't), but you can if you want per-device reporting. You just set your router's DHCP server to hand out NextDNS's DNS servers.

That’s a good point, assuming your router allows you to do that.

ATT apparently removed overriding the DNS for IPv4 and IPv6. I had to double check because I thought I could do IPv4 but no.

There’s supposedly several options around it to use your own router but it’s not really worth setting up and my speed is slower using a second router.

Re: Pi-hole v6

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I went from PiHole -> AdGuard -> NextDNS. My patience for tinkering and maintaining wasn't high enough to not just pay someone else to do it :)

The big benefit of running a DNS server locally is caching. Using any external provider means you have to go out to the internet for every single request. With a local server, most requests are fulfilled from the local cache.

You can run NextDNS on your router to solve this.
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