I should clarify I wasn’t a upper level sys admin managing those servers, I just used them or maintained accounts being a rank and file technician
While I get the fundamental concept of DNS as a phonebook for your IPs. I am not sure why it is joked around if something goes haywire or someone breaks something.
Is it because if you get no DNS, people can’t log in through their AD accounts, browse the Internet?
Afaik DNS is a bit of a rabbit hole topic, maybe that’s why people joke about it due to DNS being this “No one really knows how this magic name matching box works”?
Please correct me, I’d genuinely like to know why this is prevalent from you guys.
what do you think is pointing adservers to a black hole and not being able to reach my home network?
The actual answer is a hosts list file that Unbound is augmenting within PiHole as a daemon. The entire core function of PiHole is leveraging Unbound. Without it, PiHole remains a useless GUI and minimal linux OS.
In fact, you can completely ditch PiHole, if you know what you’re doing, and simply run Unbound as a daemon in a minimal container and do exactly what PiHole does, or run it bare-metal on your own hardware instead of buying their overpriced devices.
It’s crazy to read that when my Unbound has a 1.6 million host size block-list with regex filtered domains and uses at less than half that amount of RAM.
I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I need to run a DNS server on a Pentium II system
Like, when I install uBlock it comes with everything it needs. If I run Unbound does it block ads out of the box or do I need to point it to some list?
So happy to see someone explaining this because it’s always driven me crazy the amount of people pushing PiHole when you can do it so much more simply.