Several reasons:
- For now I am not looking to do ad-blocking and if I do, I’m not sure if I want PiHole or AdGuard.
- Instead, I just need a DNS server. As far as I can tell, PiHole is based on dnsmasq, so I don’t think I gain extra functionality that I want from it.
- As mentioned in my post, by introducing PiHole, I will create (potentially) another point of failure when it comes to my internet access.
- I assume that the performance of PiHole as DNS server will be worse than running dnsmasq on my router. As far as I can tell, with PiHole I have to configure my router to route all DNS request through PiHole, which will then go through the router again externally (where applicable). So there’s an additional roundtrip from router to PiHole in this setup?
Thanks, this does sound interesting. I don’t know anything about bind or axfr transfers, but I’ll read up on it!