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perishthethought Oct 15, 2023

Pi-hole or AdGuard for home dns-based blocking?

Pi-hole or AdGuard for home dns-based blocking? - lemm.ee

Hey folks, I just realized my pihole server, running on a Ras Pi 3 needs to be rebuilt from scratch. I’ve seen many mentions of AdGuard DNS here though. What’s your thinking on which is better now? We’re a small family, looking for a basic ad blocking, set it and forget it, solution.

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BaalInvoker Oct 15, 2023

PiHole is a pain in the ass to install in x86 Arch Linux, so I installed Technitium on my old laptop to be my home DNS server.

It works pretty well

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SunRed

+1 for the Technitium DNS server. I run it in Docker on a pi4 because I need a proper local dns server first that does DoH and ad and tracker blocking second. It does the latter just as well as pihole and adguard with support for many more list formats but pihole and adguard do dns just on a really basic level.