I love PiHole. I’ve used it in the past and it was powerful! I also use an OpenVPN/Wireguard based VPN.

So is there a service that combines the two features? Lets me import adblock lists and also VPN configurations?

Preferably something that runs in a docker container that I can throw upon portainer and running within minutes!

Thanks!

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    112·
    6 months ago

    If you don’t get any other answers:

    I run OpenWRT on my router (x86 hardware), and have Adguard Home and Wireguard installed on it.

    AdGuard has its own webUI, and Wireguard peers can be managed through LuCI in OpenWRT. It also supports OpenVPN as well as other VPN types.

    So you could run a VM with OpenWRT and get all that.

    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Ah, I’m not going there yet. OpenWRT is an eventual goal. But right now I’m stuck with devices that do not support it. I’m ok with alternate solutions.

  • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    I run a VPS with its own DNS resolver (to load blocklists), then it tunnels the traffic down a multi-hop VPN and it’s pretty excellent.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    There are “public” pihole servers: use their dns, or the many other ad-blocking servers out there as the dns for your VPN.

    Tbh, I’ve stopped the selfhosted vpn route and use tailscale (which can be selfhosted/has a docker image). It doesn’t get simpler.

    • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      huh. Never thought about public pihole servers. So nice of those folks running them.

      I don’t understand how you’re saying you’ve stopped self-hosting VPN and are still using tailscale. Are you using their SaaS service? Does that allow you to set your own DNS? Do they have speed limits? Are they zero-logs?

      • mad_asshatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Tailscale uses wireshark, which is peer-to-peer. Their “free” plan allows you to set up a network using their “coordination” server, which simplifies administration of your tailnet.

        You control dns, exit nodes, etc, so tailscale isn’t involved with the vpn itself, hence no speed limits.

        You ultimately determine what tailscale collects as far as client logging.

        If you block client logging, Tailscale may not be able to provide technical support.

        I imagine the docker image serves to eliminate tailscale from the equation.

        ETA: there are quite a few ad-blocking dns servers.

        I currently use nextdns.io

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I know some VPN providers have their own DNS service that you can use similar to other filtered public DNS. If you mean an in house DNS/VPN gateway then what you want is probably best served by something like a firewall distro (opnsense/pfsense) to handle both of them.

  • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Maybe not a docker solution, but you could throw pfSense into a VM and do all that from there

    I use it (as it’s intended) as my firewall, but I used to use these as general purpose network security VMs in the past (just because I know the product well)

    So for you: no firewall rules, just setup DNS with pfBlocker (for the advert blocking) and setup the VPN as required…

    Just an idea…

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    6 months ago

    In this same subject, is there a way to set up pihole as DoT or at least DoH? Full disclosure, I have not done any research on this. The thought just came up while reading this thread.

  • chili1553@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Not self hosted, but I’ve been using tailscale with nextdns and it has been very reliable. I got tired of worrying about availability of hosting my own

  • Pyrosis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    You might look at gluetun. It lets you configure various VPN services from a docker container. The interesting part is that you can point other docker containers to utilize gluetun for networking. Essentially piping them through the configured VPN.