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by p_ing 350 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 350 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 350 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 350 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 350 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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