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Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements

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I love the idea of pi-hole. However, I run my own local DNS server already. And my DNS server is actually serving some local domains for various servers, etc. on the network. Can I in any way get the list of domains to block from the pi-hole project and use them in my own regular Bind DNS server?

Re: Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well it to me has a few use cases that are reasonable. a) Used where Tor is unacceptable, such as some university networks, and workplaces where using anonymization such as Tor/VPN is prohibited by policy. b) When using Tor protecting yourself from the Tor endpoint collecting information / statistics on what you are visiting.

Why do you want to present a false sense of improved privacy by only obfuscating your DNS queries in these networks? It seems to me like these DNS tricks are parlor tricks in a security sideshow. Any attacker that could see your packets can also see who you are connecting to. It's pretty rare that SNI does anything relevant to a real threat model. I think a false sense of privacy is at least as dangerous as the alter…

>Any attacker that could see your packets can also see who you are connecting to.

Yes they'd see that you're connecting to one of the largest reverse proxies in the world.

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