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I have the PiHole VPN configured so that only DNS lookups go through it. All other traffic is not tunneled. It means I don't get billed for several gigabytes
by Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
I have the PiHole VPN configured so that only DNS lookups go through it. All other traffic is not tunneled. It means I don't get billed for several gigabytes of traffic from AWS and my traffic doesn't come from an AWS IP, but I still get all the ad-blocking benefits of a PiHole.
At home on my desktop, I just use uBlock Origin in my browser.
- O_H_E 5y agooh wow that is cool. I have never heard or thought about putting a pi-hole in the cloud.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y agoIt made more sense to me for using a PiHole on my phone. I didn't want to expose a VPN port on my home network, and didn't want to deal with trying to tunnel VPN through SSH. And the EC2 instance I installed it on was already being used for other toy projects, so it's not like it cost me anything. The additional egress bandwidth is likely fractions of a penny.