Pi-hole
A black hole for Internet advertisements (by pi-hole)
dnscrypt-proxy
dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols. (by DNSCrypt)
| Pi-hole | dnscrypt-proxy | |
|---|---|---|
| 2,377 | 165 | |
| 52,514 | 12,238 | |
| 1.0% | 1.4% | |
| 9.5 | 9.4 | |
| 9 days ago | 10 days ago | |
| Shell | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | ISC License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Pi-hole
Posts with mentions or reviews of Pi-hole.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-21.
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Remove Internet Junk from Ground Up: A DNS-Based Approach
P.S. If you want even more control over your DNS resolvers, you can host one of your own using Pi-hole.
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Why do we need DNSSEC?
Your mom should be running this. It would improve her life. Set it up for her.
https://pi-hole.net
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Zero Trust, One Router: Hardening Your Home Lab Like a Cyber Fortress.
Pi-hole: Block ads and trackers at DNS level
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Self-hosting like a final boss: what I actually run on my home lab (and why)
Pi-hole: DNS-level ad-blocking
- Ask HN: What project do you donate to?
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Tools for thoughts1 Date:03/2025 Moderator:Daniel.J.Q.Goh
This part can be link to Pi-Hole Before proceed to configuring VPN, recommended to get "Free DNS" for yourself at MyDNS to manage your own network.
- Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)
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Using Raspberry Pi Computers For OSINT And Self-Quantification
One of my favorite uses of a Raspberry Pi computer is Pi-hole. Which is promoted as a network-wide advertisement blocker. By installing Pi-hole on a RPi and attaching said device to your home LAN, a whole new world of OSINT and self-quantification is opened up.
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uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
Time to set up Pi-Hole on my Rapsberry Pi 4
https://pi-hole.net/
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Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
Tools like https://pi-hole.net does this for the whole house. It comes with a default set of blocked domains and you can easily add to it. It acts as your local DNS for the network.
dnscrypt-proxy
Posts with mentions or reviews of dnscrypt-proxy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-29.
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WireGuard DoV (DNS-over-VPN)
dnscrypt-proxy
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Control your attention on the web – Block sites on certain days and times
That can be done at DNS level in dnscrypt-proxy: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Filters#time...
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What to do with your DNS when ODoH's Trust-Me-Bruh Model doesn't work for you
There is more than one way to do this but I have decided to use dnscrypt-proxy. We will not be using dnscrypt for the dnscrypt protocol though you could elect to use that as the underlying DNS protocol. dnscrypt-proxy lets's us use a SOCKS5 proxy through which the DNS queries will be sent. We will use a Tor SOCKS5 proxy here. You can choose which protocols should be enabled and which ones should be disabled. There are two points:
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Installing DNSCrypt-Proxy on Silverblue - possible SELinux issue
I tried installing the RPM from the Fedora repos but it's out-of-date and there were no instructions on how to get it operational, so I went with the manual approach as per their wiki: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Installation-linux
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SmartDNS – local DNS server that forwards to multiple upstream DNS servers
This is awesome, thanks -- going to look into that now. I found SmartDNS interesting and thought I would share it, it's pretty simple to setup. I can see why it's Chinese focused, they have "interesting" internet access over there :-).
I have been looking into DNS quite a bit lately (Unbound, etc), as DNS lookup performance has been pretty subpar lately. I'm in Perth, Australia, and we're pretty remote so our latency is meh at best, and Cloudflare performance has been all over the shop lately, I think they're having issues in WA). DNS can also cause really routing issues here sometimes as we get better latency to Singapore than Sydney, so we might get shunted off to SG.
I've also been using dnscrypt-proxy2 (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy) for a while, but the above issues with Cloudflares DNS is what triggered me to look into other options.
I use a min-cache-ttl of 15 minutes, which seems to work well.
Thank you for sharing this tip about, looking into this now :).
- I need help with DNScrypt proxy v2 and dnsmasq to prevent dns leaks
- trying to use Anonymized DNS with DNScrypty proxy v2 on openwrt router
- help with DNScrypt proxy v2 and dnsmasq to prevent dns leaks
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Is using tailscale on a public unsecured wifi as safe as using a VPN?
Sure. I run dnscrypt_proxy behind a pihole. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Pi-hole and dnscrypt-proxy you can also consider the following projects:
Technitium DNS Server - Technitium DNS Server
GoodbyeDPI - GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
graylog - Free and open log management
cloudflared - Cloudflare Tunnel client (formerly Argo Tunnel)
the-quantum-ad-list
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)