How are folks syncing local DNS records across multiple Piholes?

all 21 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I just run teleporter on my primary and manually upload that backup to my secondary. My blocklists and local DNS dont change much, so its not a big concern of mine.

Nebula-Sync and Orbital-Sync may be of interest to you. It seems like you want to automate the syncing.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I have a "main" Pihole on a Raspberry Pi, and I set up another instance in a VM for secondary functions.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I have this same setup, current strategy is I have automation in my n8n where I can fill in a form and if submits the dns addition to both piholes via api. I am considering alternatives but has worked alright for now

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why do you have more than one? Is this for an enterprise-level situation?

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've found that if I set primary as pihole and secondary as, say 1.1.1.1. then, my android phone will pick either one seemingly randomly. So my local DNS doesn't work.

    My workaround was to do two pihole. I forget how I sync them though.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    My dns config options always have at least two spots. Obviously, this means I need two piholes to fill them both up.

    More seriously, it has actually saved my network from going down a couple times already.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I run unbound alongside pihole for extra privacy and I keep my unbound config in git. I have gitea set up to push out new unbound configs every time there’s a git push.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    That's a great idea! Thanks! I've got unbound running locally on one instance of Pihole, and I've got it in a LXC for the other instance. Using the configs to pull from git would make that much easier to sync.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is an iOS/macOS app called “Pi-hole Remote” that can manage multiple PiHole instances at once. I use that because it will make changes on both instances at once for me.

    Other than that, I log in to each device and copy paste.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pihole runs on dnsmasq right? Maybe you could create a cronjob to copy the underlying dnsmasq.conf to other Piholes

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    if you just want to have a solution where you can create / delete multiple local dns records on a raspberry, you van use terraform, it has a raspberry provider. I tried it recently, i was able to import existing records, create new ones. you just have to keep the list in a terraform project.

  • source