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0 pointsAnonC3y ago0 comments

> Most importantly you can use it transparently outside of your network; you have a single DNS service with a single configuration available everywhere.

As an aside: for a generic replacement for pi-hole inside and outside one’s local network, NextDNS (it’s not self-hosted) works fine. It allows setting up ad blocking and tracker blocker filters from common filter lists, allows custom allow and deny lists, and provides 300k queries a month in the free plan (when this limit is exceeded, the DNS works but not the filter lists).

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pbhjpbhj3y ago

For comparison to 300k queries, I use pihole and ublock, we basically have 4 users, we're in UK and have one desktop computer, 4 mobile phones, a laptop, a game console, a TV with Netflix (no other pay TV). Most daytimes there's only one person home.

We do an average of ~7k DNS requests per day, somehow. Our max day was 26000 requests ... I assume everyone is abusing DNS for tracking (heartbeat of some sort?).

Microsoft seem to hit the pihole rate limits often, presumably if you block their tracking domains they think making hundreds of requests a minute is the way forward ... it's almost like they're trying to DoS me with my own computer.

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