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I love PiHole. I run my PiHole on a small cloud VM that I use for several projects, but put it behind a VPN that's configured to only forward DNS lookups, then
by Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
I love PiHole.
I run my PiHole on a small cloud VM that I use for several projects, but put it behind a VPN that's configured to only forward DNS lookups, then VPN into it from my phone. So many advantages behind this setup.
- Since only DNS lookups are tunneled, I don't have to worry about tunneling ALL my traffic and paying egress fees
- Blocks ads in ALL apps, not just my browser
- If it's acting up, I can just disconnect from the VPN to disable PiHoling
- Don't have to expose my home IP address and open a port for the world to start banging on
- TheArcane 2y ago> Don't have to expose my home IP address and open a port for the world to start banging on Is that really an issue if all you're exposing is the VPN port? Wireguard for instance has industrial-grade encryption. Even open port 51820 should be fine
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoI mean, probably not. But I like the idea of keeping everything closed anyways.
- 8fingerlouie 2y agoWith wireguard in particular, you're probably not running much risk, as wireguard runs over UDP, and as long as you're not connecting with a correct (recognized) key, it will not even generate a response, so a potential attacker has no way of knowing for sure that wireguard is running on a given port.