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> Having a single DNS server for your network is very stressful

Common... He's talking about a home network.

I also have one of my Pi set up as a DNS server (running unbound directly not PiHole though) and this thing is rock stable solid.

We're talking about Linux here. I've had a Linux server reach years of uptime (kids: don't try this at home, it's not secure but it was a test of Linux's stability).

Redundancy is great though but I really wouldn't lose sleep over it. If anything you can "dd" the Pi's SD card to another one and just replace the Pi (or the SD card) should anything go wrong.



My local DNS is Adguard running in Docker. It is exposed on :53 and handed out with the DHCP.

If my Docker setup goes down (and it did the other day with Docker's network bug on v25) I have no DNS available.

And having a firewall rule capturing ALL DNS traffic and redirecting it to this endpoint doesn't make it easy to quickly recover from.

So I like this idea.

All machines get the




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