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Technitium DNS Server

medium

Self-hosted authoritative and recursive DNS server with web UI, blocking, and DNS-over-HTTPS support.

0.5 GB RAM Docker Active GPL-3.0
Source Docs Website

Replaces

NextDNS

Pros

  • Broader DNS server than Pi-hole or AdGuard Home
  • Web UI for zones, forwarding, blocking, and encrypted DNS
  • Can act as authoritative and recursive DNS

Cons

  • More DNS concepts to understand than simple ad blockers
  • Exposing authoritative DNS requires careful security
  • Smaller homelab community than Pi-hole

Tags

dnsadblockdohauthoritativerecursive

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