Solved Pi-hole alternative

Hey guys :)

I am currently searching a Pi-hole alternative...

Are there any alternatives supporting FreeBSD?

Thanks in advance!
 
This exact question was on HackerNews today. I will quote here some of the conversation:

"pihole is essentially this (dnsmasq + banlist), but with a pretty UI and admin page"
dns/dnsmasq is in ports and above is a banlist.
 
And for the android users, there is "dns666". It uses the DNS servers provided by the CCC, which filter pretty well.
 
I recently found this project which I may switch to. It's a single binary written in Go and uses configuration file(s).

I'm still using pi-hole on debian on bhyve which was a good learning experience, but blocky definitely looks simpler with less moving parts.

GitHub - blocky

and it is in the ports tree already and so there's a package

dns/blocky
 
I use dnsmasq.d and I really like the notracking list. No need for software. 3 commands to update.

 
I found "AdGuard Home", have web dashboard. There is also a plugin for "Truenas". Here is a comparison with "Pi Hole":
2025-01-19 13_52_12-AdguardTeam_AdGuardHome_ Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server —...png
 
Following few posts on the forum and this thread, I am currently using "oisd" with dnsmasq.
To summarize it's a set of known block lists that are divided in 4 categories (big, small, nsfw, nsfw-small).
It works with a lot of different "ads blockers/tools".
Personally I selected the big & the nfsw list, also added a list from elsewhere (to block some domains that I am not fan of), and it works pretty good so far.

Check the FAQ there are few information you might want to know.

That being said I might try one day the one listed by Phishfry just above (post #20) because this seems very detailed.
 
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