• wheresmysurplusvalue [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Which way did you set up an adblocking DNS with NixOS? Blocky?

    I've got an old raspberry pi running pihole. But I've also got a tiny headless computer doing my routing which is using NixOS. (As of yet I'm too much of a novice to set up all the firewall rules myself, so I have OPNsense running in a VM...) It'd be nice if I could just obsolete the pi and unify all my stuff into the router for more frequent updates.

    • hello_hello [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      I'm using technitium DNS server which has module in NixOS.

      It seems relatively well maintained and has what I need (web interface, one click set up etc.)

      I'm still new to this stuff so I'm figuring it out as I test things out. I didn't want to buy a raspberry pi so I used an old libreboot thinkpad I had that I never used.

      NixOS modules eliminate a lot of the jank involved which is why I use it, I've also used NixOS as a desktop in the past so it only makes sense.