What’s your opinion on using a vpn with pihole? Should i stick with the vpn-dns or add the pihole?

  • cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    PiHole is awesome, used it for a long time, do yourself a favor and grab a mini pc or spin up a vm on a server and put pfsense on it. You can filter everything out at the entry point to your home network with a high level of granular control.

  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com
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    8 months ago

    I personally went for PiHole + DNS-over-TLS / DNS-over-HTTPS in order to use PiHole on my phone while outside my home. It doesn’t require to constantly have a VPN active, which saves a bit of battery life. Its only drawbacks are that it requires a domain name for DNS-over-HTTPS, a way to route traffic to your server and additional setup and software (Dnsproxy and Certbot)

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The pihole is pretty easy to setup and allows for much more (optional) configuration, I would say go for the VPN router + pihole.