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[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Not OP but a lot of people probably use pi-hole which doesn't support wildcards for some inane reason

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 5 hours ago

I switched to Technitium and I've been pretty happy. Seems very robust, and as a bonus was easy to use it to stop DNS leaks (each upstream has a static route through a different Mullvad VPN, and since they're queried in parallel, a VPN connection can go down without losing any DNS...maybe this is how pihole would have handled it too though).

And of course, wildcards supported no problem.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's my case. I send every new subdomain to my nginx IP on pi-hole and then use nginx as a reverse proxy

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

That was my exact setup as well until I switched to a different router which supported both custom DNS entries and blocklists, thereby making the pi-hole redundant

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I run opnsense, so I need to dump pi-hole. But I don't have the energy right now to do that.

Pi-Hole was pretty straightforward at the time and I did not look back since then. Annoying, but easy.