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Devices -> Pi-Hole -> Unbound (running on Pi). My phone is connected to Pi-Hole via Wireguard, so it gets to take advantage of the ad-blocking as well. Yes, I
by justusthane 3y ago
Devices -> Pi-Hole -> Unbound (running on Pi). My phone is connected to Pi-Hole via Wireguard, so it gets to take advantage of the ad-blocking as well.
Yes, I would recommend it. Running Unbound means you don't have to trust anyone's upstream DNS servers. Disadvantage is maybe slightly slower resolution, as you don't get to take advantage of the upstream server's caching.
- liotier 3y agoWhy don't you add an hosts blacklist to Unbound, thus removing the need for the Pi-Hole - which is mostly dnsmasq with same blacklists ? https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Using_Unbound_as_an_Ad-blocker https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Using_Unbound_as_an_Ad-blo...
- justusthane 3y agoBecause it has a nice UI, shows me what devices are making what DNS requests and which are being blocked, and is easy to add individual exceptions or disable entirely temporarily if something goes wrong.
- crtasm 3y agoThey still need something to run Unbound+Wireguard on, what's the benefit of removing the PiHole software from the setup?
- vladvasiliu 3y agoOne less hop on the DNS resolution chain.