@payown I love Tailscale. It has so many other cool things too. I need to investigate those. Like Taildrop.

@stevenscott I honestly thought it was gonna take more time and be more of a headache to set up than it was. Now I’m just at the point where I’m like OK it’s done now what lol

@payown @stevenscott Tailscale is just fantastic. I have adblocking on all my devices via a Raspberry pi at home, regardless of whether I'm at home or on the road, because I set my tailscale DNs to always root through pi.

@FreakyFwoof @stevenscott So couple of questions for you! Are you using pie hole to block ads on all of your devices running through Tailscale? Is your pie an exit node or are you using a different device on your network as the exit note? And which pie are you using?

@payown @stevenscott PiHole, yes. Two pi 4's both with PiHole on, one as a fallback.
Don't even need to use exit nodes at all if you tell Tailscale that you're using custom DNS from the admin panel, and I put the Tailscale IP's of my pi's in, with even further fallback from quad9 dns so there are four name resolvers in there. First two are mine, last two are quad9's, if my home internet connection drops out for whatever reason.

@FreakyFwoof @stevenscott OK, I have a four that isn’t doing anything right now, so I think I have an afternoon project thank you, sir

@payown @stevenscott PiHole is just a must-have for anyone imo, especially these days.

@FreakyFwoof @payown @stevenscott agreed. I've been using it for over 10 years now, combined with Unbound for faster look ups via recursive caching.

@BorrisInABox @payown @stevenscott Did the same. Have a text file that should give you all the steps for unbound and pihole config if needed. worked for me twice, but I made the info for me so it's not best documented.

@FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Would love that text document if you don’t mind sharing

@payown @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Sure. It ain't pretty like I said but here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/awtfc5cdlniwei75kjg9c/Unbound-DNS.txt?rlkey=5154257nzekf16w6dagb4wswk&dl=1

@FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Copy that thank you

@payown @FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Chiming in real quick to thank you all for this informative conversation. I've now configured Unbound, and used Andre's config file, (along with Pi-hole documentation), as a guide, and set up my Pi-hole's DNS in Tailscale, so ad-blocking is now set no matter where I am.

@walkside3 @FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Same here, just finished it up! Little brother asked why I hadn’t eaten yet, told him got distracted. But now I have it all set up and configured.

@payown @walkside3 @FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Hey y'all. Really appreciate this conversation! I want to do this but it's way over my head. I downloaded the config file but I'm confused as to what to do with it. Can I get a short explanation of the hardware/tools a moron like me needs to get this pie whole thing up and running?