I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W as Pi-Hole + unbound going.
Recently, I bound a new router and lost all my local DNS records.
So what I mean by that is due to proprietary formats and non-interoperability between the old and new router,
I would have been forced to re-enter all IP <-> local hostnames pairs by hand again in the new web-ui.
Fuck that, never again.
I'm thinking not entering the local hostnames in my router ever again (unless it's OpenWRT some day...).
Instead, I want to use a local /etc/hosts (or whatever...) on my PiHole + unbound installation (which itself is based on DietPi, so I have root access).
I would like to manage my local DNS addresses inside my home (192.168.x.x) locally on the piHole, but not inside of the "local DNS records" UI. I don't want to be bound by another vendor (PiHole).
I really, really want to use a manuall plain text file like /etc/hosts for that.
Just entered a sample entry into /etc/hosts and then I googled what to add to /etc/resolv.conf of the pihole itself:
| Quote: |
domain home
search home
nameserver ::1
nameserver 127.0.0.1
options trust-ad
lookup file bind |
I assume the last line is "intended" to mean, lookup local /etc/hosts file first, if no match goto the "real" DNS servers in pure unbound fashion.
I tried it out (not locally on the pihole, on a client that has pihole/unbound as DNS server set):
nslookup dontouchdapeepee (doesn't work)
ping dontouchdapeepee (doesn't work)
Locally on the pihole/unbound it's not much different:
nslookup dontouchdapeepee (doesn't work)
ping dontouchdapeepee (this does work, but only locally)
Does somebody know about unbound and networking?
Help is appreciated.
EDIT: forget about it. I am a retard.
I only needed to restart pihole-FTL service before any changes to /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts actually make a difference.
(I thought it was live / immediatelly)
Now it works exactly as I intended!
UPDATE:
Actually, since we're at it already I might add a new question:
One advantage of my old router was that the IP <-> local DNS name mapping was based on the MAC address.
If I additionally install a local DHCP server on my pihole ... how could I realize the IP <-> local DNS name by MAC address?
Cause that's the only "killer" feature I miss from the old router, really.
Everything else is just regular ... be a router, gib Wifi, gib Internet, and no more.
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