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by giantg2 356 days ago
You can't run a DNS server on the same mini PC? Seems like that would be ideal.

I run PiHole on a Pi Zero, which isn't really comparable to any mini PC in cost or performance. It uses such little resources that I'm surprised that most new routers don't offer the DNS filtering features out of the box these days.
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p_ing 356 days ago
Pi-Hole specifically has a limited number of officially supported OSes - https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/. PfSense/Opnsense run on top of FreeBSD which is not supported by Pi-Hole.

I assume this is true of pfSense, but Opnsense has a number of available DNS server options built into the distribution.

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giantg2 356 days ago
Yeah, thats why I asked about a DNS server running on there and not just a PiHole. Is there any reason to perfer PiHole over the Opnsense options?
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geerlingguy 356 days ago
Pi-hole is a little easier for someone who's not into networking to deploy. I would give a beginner Pi-hole much sooner than I would introduce them to OPNsense. (I run both, OPNsense for my studio network, and Pi-hole + Asuswrt-merlin for my homelab)
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dizhn 355 days ago
I installed pihole once. Not a fan. Since then I've been using Adguard Home. It's a single go binary so it would work fine on pfsense/opnsense either directly or in a jail.
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danparsonson 355 days ago
I run Proxmox on an MSI N100 machine hosting opnSense in a VM and PiHole in a container; works really nicely.
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