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Self hosted DNS (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 days ago by srasmus@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So, with the Cloudflare outage, I have found my self hosted services are not accessible outside of the home. I use a SWAG reverse proxy from linuxserver.io and bought my domain through cloudflare. I'm fairly new at this stuff, so is this a secure way of doing things? Does cloudflare have access to my data? I'm fairly new at this, so I apologize if this is a silly question. Is there some way to self host what cloudflare does?

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[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't believe pihole functions as an authorative DNS server though. Something like technetium does and they could be used as the nameservers for a domain while still offering all the same adblocking functionality that pihole does.

Though pihole could work of you were relying on a VPN to access your stuff remotely.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you manually add local DNS entries, it won’t forward the lookup, it will just point the client to the IP you specify. I do this all the time for intranet communication because it’s faster and more reliable.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Those are not authoritative responses, though. You can only add CNAME and A records to pihole, because it's built on dnsmasq and not on bind/unbound.

You can't add SOA records to pihole. Or zone transfers, or any actual DNS server functions, really. Pihole is just a forwarder.

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

Sure but this won't work if you're accessing services outside your network like OP is doing. You're going to need publicly available DNS records somewhere to do that.