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A few months ago I went on a quest for a DNS server and was dissatisfied with current maintained projects. They were either good at adblocking (Blocky, grimd...) or good at specifying custom DNS (CoreDNS...).

So I forked grimd and embarked on rewriting a good chunk of it for it to address my needs - the result is leng.

  • it is fast
  • it is small
  • it is easy
  • you can specify blocklists and it will fetch them for you
  • you can specify custom DNS records with proper zone file syntax (SRV records, etc)
  • it supports DNS-over-HTTPS so you can stay private
  • it is well-documented
  • can be deployed on systemd, docker, or Nix

I have been running it as my nameserver in a Nomad cluster since! I plan to keep maintaining and improving it, so feel free to give it a try if it also fulfils your needs

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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 11 points 1 year ago (13 children)

This looks interesting.

So it's like PiHole, but written in Go, smaller and faster?

[–] nico@r.dcotta.eu 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Yes (much simpler) and also allows you to specify custom DNS, which is very useful for more advanced self-hosted deployments - this is something PiHole is just not built to address

[–] ShunkW@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

How is PiHole not built for custom DNS? It literally has an entire management page for that.

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Last I used PiHole many years back, it was possible to use it as DHCP but not possible to add custom DNS records like TXT, SRV, etc. . Perhaps that’s what OP is trying to solve for?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

You can set CNAME and DNS. Not much else I need at home for a reverse proxy.

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