I only want it do one thing, gives the locally configured IP address when it has the records. Otherwise go talk to 8.8.8.8.

Any suggestions?

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Adguard Home, Pihole and CoreDNS fits the bill imho. I use AdguardHome for “general purpose”, and CoreDNS for my lab projects.

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A lot of people are suggesting pihole. I used pihole for awhile and it was neat. Then I bit the bullet and got an actual mini-pc router with a bunch of NICs on it and put OPNSense on it. I now use Unbound DNS on OPNSense and it has made my network a lot easier to manage & more stable.

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I use unbound on Opnsense as well.

works well for me except for Paramount app on my TV, it contacts every damn advertising tracker known to man and refuses to start a video if it can’t.

Work arround was to set a static IP on the TV with specified DNS.

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Pihole will integrate with unbound. Pihole already caches as well. The advantages of unbound are debatable.

OPNSense ban list is WAY too aggressive.

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OPNSense ban list is WAY too aggressive.

I believe you can use different lists, however I will say that I no longer use any sort of DNS adblocking because it broke some applications my wife needed for work. I imagine I could fiddle with the block lists and find ones that are less problematic, but I determined that it ultimately causes more problems than it solves for me.

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After having a lot of trouble with pinole, blocky solved all my issues. Single config file, that’s it.

https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/v0.22/

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Technitium for DNS/DHCP/Ad blocking.

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OPNsense firewall unbound dns.

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