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by papascrubs 282 days ago
I run Technitium DNS server at home in a container. It supports DoH, DoT, multiple upstream resolvers (and multiple upstream queries, adblock support and a sleep of other goodies (API). If you're self hosting an internal resolver I highly recommend checking it out. I prefer it to pihole.

https://technitium.com/dns/
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yumraj 282 days ago
> I prefer it to pihole.

Can you talk more as to why?

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papascrubs 282 days ago
Sure!

Technitium is a full fledged authoritative recursive DNS resolver with adblock, whereas pihole is more focused solely on the adblock experience. Technitium supports full zone management, DNSSEC, and all DNS record types. Pihole is limited to a handful of types and can't do custom zones and the management is somewhat clunky IMO. Technitium has full DNS logging, statistics, conditional forwarding, and a full rest API for management.

I think Pihole is a great project, but Technitium caters better to power users and people that want/need more complex control over their internal DNS infrastructure (while still remaining relatively simple from a management perspective).

Simply put, Pihole is adblock with some DNS sprinkled in, Technitium is a DNS server first with adblock support. I don't think you can go wrong either way, but if you're going to need more advanced DNS capabilities at home, roll Technitium to save yourself a migration down the line.

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yumraj 282 days ago
I’ve been running pihole for 10-15 years, don’t even remember. Will take a look at Technitium. Looks like they have a Mac build, so I can just try it before attempting to replace pihole.

Looking online, seems some people run both, not sure if that’s worth it though.

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nyarlathotep_ 282 days ago
> I’ve been running pihole for 10-15 years, don’t even remember. Will take a look at Technitium. Looks like they have a Mac build, so I can just try it before attempting to replace pihole.

Likewise. I remember setting it up first in the mid 2010s when pis went mainstream. Although I've also used AdGuard home, but I keep a pi-hole running for 'high availability.'

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audelair 281 days ago
I also love Technitium, and excited about some of the features that are coming soon. PostgreSQL for logs, aggregated view for viewing activity across multiple servers. The developer is also very active on Reddit and Patreon.
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johnklos 281 days ago
Binary only, and only support for certain processors makes it not very universal. I don't like getting binaries from other people :(
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