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I'm curious why you'd use pi-hole in combination with Unbound instead of using blocklists and stats that Unbound has built in?

• harry8 10mo ago
  I don't know about unbound's blocklists and stats or indeed much about unbound at all. This: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ was stupidly simple, pi-hole has a gui that I was already used to and it all works great. So I think about and study other things that need fixing/improving in my life instead. To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?)
  • TheFuzzball 10mo ago
    > To flip it, why would I use unbound without pi-hole? What's the win I haven't seen (or even looked at or considered?) In my experience, the fewer moving parts the better. I run Unbound on my OPNsense router, and it uses the same blocklists as Pi-hole and the stats page (blocked domains, DNS requests, etc) are the same afaict.
    • harry8 10mo ago
      But you still need something to do your dhcp, so maybe not fewer moving parts? Dunno. I did pi-hole first, then much later decided to use unbound for dns because it looked super easy to add it. It was. Haven't thought about it much since. I hope your experience was as good or better.