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A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

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Re: A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

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Huh interesting feature, I'll have to check it out today to see if there's enough improvements over pihole to warrant a switch. I'm effectively always on my network because I use Wireguard to VPN back in to home, so I can easily access my server and RPi dashboards. Though at this point I've whitelisted a few dozen domains that were giving my wife or I issues, and excluded most of her devices because she doesn't want…

Do you notice a battery drain with the VPN always on? I used to use tailscale for this and there was a nontrivial battery penalty

I've never specifically noticed WireGuard anywhere in the top battery consumers on either Android or iOS. Friday I was out of the house all day, and Wireguard running on cellular all day used 1% of my iPhone battery.

Re: A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

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This is a neat guide. Its baked in already if you have a Firewalla device. Cool to see this roll your own approach. I always found their guide helpful.

From the Firewalla Site -

How to Choose Your DNS Strategy If you have NO concerns at all, just use traditional DNS from your ISP or configure some public DNS for your LAN networks if you like. If you need simple filtering to protect your network from unwanted online content, choose Family Protect -> Native mode. It won't conflict with other DNS services. If you trust your DNS service provider but don't trust your ISP, choose DNS over HTTPS. If you do not trust any single DNS server other than the root and authoritative DNS server, choose Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered, use Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered and want to add a layer of encryption so that your ISP can't see your DNS requests, use Unbound and turn on DNS over VPN under it.

https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/4570608120979-F...

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