Hey there, im looking into setting up a DNS Server in my Homelab, i would like something like this:
- Server in Docker on my Proxmox Server
- Server in Docker on my NAS and
- Server in my “Cloud” Network
Do you guys have any recommendations on how i could accomplish this? Otherwise i will just use PiHole with sync again or something like it :)
I use pihole for its good filtering, selective filtering, statistics and logging capabilities, and technitium dns as its upstream for it’s superior capability in defining dns records, and because I can use a DoH dns provider with it
Do you need dedicated hardware for pihole?
I use Blocky as my DNS server.
CoreDNS in Docker to mix things up here a little.
Just run it as systemd service on my server.
Adguard home
My home lab is small so I just run BIND ony server
Two PiHole servers. One is hosted via docker on my primary file server and the other is hosted in a Hyper-V VM on my sole windows box. The VM one is also my DHCP server.
Unbound on my OPNsense firewall. I don’t have advice for you, do you have some specific goals besides just having a DNS?
Technitium
I run Unbound on my opnsense firewall.
I have a philosophy of sticking close to reference implementations and upstream in the homelab because it forces me to learn principles rather than implementations. I use bind9, but that upstreams to pihole on a different port. It is hard to configure for sure, editing zone files in vi, but I learn a lot analyzing the reference syntax to understand features. I also use isc-dhcp-server for DHCP, again manually populating dhcpd.conf.
Bind can peer with other instances; right now it is it’s own ipam vm on my proxmox with bind/isc-dhcp/pihole docker, but I’m looking at dropping some hardware at a family member’s for a site 2.
The default Unbound server on Opnsense.
Two pihole servers, one n VM vlan, one on device VLAN with OpnSense delivering them both via DHCP options. I sometimes update lists, like yearly… At best. They’ve been there over 7 years. Calling them robust is correct. The hypervisors are 3 proxmox servers in cluster using ceph. Intrl NUC 3rd Gen. Less than 80w combined with all vms. Also 8 years old no failures but tolerant for it.
I sometimes update lists, like yearly… At best
Don’t they get updated automatically?
I use AdGuard in my OpnSense firewall.
Why do you want a server on proxmox and NAS? or have I read this wrong?