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Self hosted DNS (slrpnk.net)
submitted 11 months ago by 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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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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