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What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by bernhoftbret@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've run Pi-hole in my homelab for years and benefited from using the service. As well as the hands-on education.

With that said, what is everyone else's experience with the software? Do you use Pi-hole in your homelab setup? I would assume many hundreds of thousands of people use Pi-hole.

Edit #1:

The image attached to this post is my RPi 5, which hosts the Pi-hole software. Big supporter of the whole "SBCs for learning and home improvement" mentality.

Edit #2:

It is interesting to see the broad support for Pi-hole and DNS blockers in general. The more options, the healthier the tech ecosystem is, which benefits everyone.

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[–] wersooth@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago

I used pihole for many many many years, never go back ever again. database crashes, random freeze, UI broke just from an API call and sometime just randomly. Tried on Pi2, Pi3, Pi4, VMs, the result was always the same. then I switched to adguard home, no issue ever since. I'm using it for:

DNS level adblock
Local DHCP server
DNS server for routing home stuff As DNS and DHCP is kinda important, I have a separate VM just for adguard and docker registry, 512-2G ram. Then I have 2 VMs running alpine as docker swarm, 8Gb each. It's important to make sure even if your "main" infra goes down, you will still have internet to search and debug - hence the separate VM. Also using an NFS share for persistent storage for the data.