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Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by kissgyorgy on Sunday May 26, 2019 @05:43AM (#20014048)
There is a very important use-case which you can do on a local network but can't with this: setting up a DHCP server and pushing a default DNS server address even to clients which network settings you don't have access to, is possible locally. Xbox, streaming devices, non-geek friends devices, etc. Pihole can do this and ohmygod it's life changing!
Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by 713233eb on Sunday May 26, 2019 @07:13AM (#20014311)
And you can also redirect all port 53 traffic to PiHole on the gateway and let only PiHole query DNS to circumvent clients that use hardcoded IP addresses (e.g. 8.8.8.8 by default)
Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by dual_basis on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:25PM (#20015703)
This doesn't have anything to do with running a local PiHole, it's just a feature of having a local DHCP server. Any typical home router also has a local DHCP server, and if you change the DNS associated with the internet connection on the router this will be passed on to any device which connects via DHCP.
Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by Terretta on Sunday May 26, 2019 @08:17AM (#20014513)
This works with this service. You can associate your public IP (your router's WAN) with a custom blocking configuration. Then you put their AnyCast IP address in your DHCP server's DNS server list. The local devices will use that address, be seen from your public IP, and get the custom config you want.
Re:Show HN: nextdns.io – A Combination of Cloudflare DNS and... by homero on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:00AM (#20037736)
No any router supports doing that