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  • Off the top of my head:

    • Allows using DoH/DoT/DoQUIC/recursive upstreams without installing extra packages (unbound, cloudflared, etc)
    • Allows acting as a DoH/DoH3/DoT/DoQUIC server alongside normal DNS over UDP and TCP
    • Allows configuring SOCKS/HTTP proxies for forwarders
    • Act as authoritative zone server with DNSSEC signing
    • Allows custom responses via plugins (e.g. conditional responses based on client’s IP addresses)
    • Accept PROXY Protocol to forward client IPs from trusted load balancers
    • All the clustering and zone transfers magic
    • DNS64

    It really dives deep into the inner workings of DNS and does pretty much anything Pi-Hole does, with many more security and QoL features. Although the UI may feel a bit dated, I’d recommend it to anyone running their own homelab infrastructure beyond just adblocking







  • If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I think it’s better hooking up Element Call to your current setup, and remove Element Web if you can BYO client.

    For a more lightweight alternative, I personally find continuwuity to be reasonably stable for the specs you mentioned. It does admin tasks in an #admins room, use an embedded database, and has no client UI so less containers needed. So continuwuity + EC should be able to run under the constraints you mentioned

    The lightest would still be any XMPP server, though its functionality does differ from Matrix overall





  • stratself@lemdro.idtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldBeyond Pi-Hole
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    1 month ago

    You should add your DNS forwarder as its own node in Tailscale, and configure the tailnet to resolve DNS through it. That way you’ll be able to resolve both MagicDNS node names and your local domains, as well as being blocklist-enabled. Besides, I think you can also define custom A/AAAA records on your Tailscale console, skipping local records on Pi-hole altogether.

    I’d also recommend Technitium for a new DNS solution, mainly because they’re going to add support for clustering soon. This could be highly useful if you want to configure blocklists once and sync them between different Technitium nodes. Should it works out, I’m thinking of installing it alongside every Tailscale exit node, for the benefit of synced blocklists, local domains, and exit-node geolocated IPs for external domains.



  • Rsync depends on OpenSSH, but it definitely isn’t SFTP. I’ve tried using it against an SFTPGo instance, and lost some files because it runs its own binary, bypassing SFTPGo’s permission checks. Instead, I’ve opted for rclone with the SFTP backend, which does everything rsync do and is very well compliant.

    In fact, while SFTPGo’s main developer published a fix for this bug, he also expressed intention to drop support for the command entirely. I think I’m just commenting to give a heads up for any passerby.


  • Hi, I think OP wants their sibilings to directly connect to their PC, skipping any relays, even if it’s their VPS.

    But if you are comparing setting up your own VPS instead of relaying through Tailscale’s DERP, then the answer is… it depends on the distance and whether you can establish VPS->Local VM direct connections.

    I found opening a specified port for Tailscale on the VPS to help with direct connections with CGNAT’d peers. I’m not familiar with Pangolin, but I think the same principle applies as long as at least one address:port combination is agreed between Wireguard peers.

    If I’m being honest though, before doing all this, try asking your ISPs for IPv6 to avoid these cumbersome things together.


  • If both your Jellyfin server and your siblings are behind residential CGNAT, then high chance your connections are relayed through Tailscale’s DERP servers. You can check with tailscale ping-ing your sibilings’ nodes.

    If this is the case, you may consider selfhosting your own DERP somewhere close to you, but I’d argue the performance gains are minimal compared to the extra costs. Another solution would be to enable IPv6 for both you and your siblings, skipping NAT traversal. I just hope both ISPs support it and support it properly in $CURRENT_YEAR.

    This is all assuming you can direct play (i.e. not transcoding) your media. If you’re transcoding, then it’s good to look into hardware acceleration like the other comment mentioned, too