Technitium DNS Server review: control your network’s DNS
Want a free open-source DNS server? Learn how Technitium handles filtering, encrypted lookups, local logs and setup before choosing it for your home.
Want a free open-source DNS server? Learn how Technitium handles filtering, encrypted lookups, local logs and setup before choosing it for your home.
Blocky is a fast, lightweight DNS proxy and blocker written in Go, configured entirely in one plain YAML file: blocklists, allowlists, per-client groups and encrypted upstreams. Built for people who prefer config files over dashboards. There is no web interface at all, and you administer it like any self-hosted service. Small, sharp, auditable in an […]
Pi-hole is a network-level DNS filter: a small self-hosted box that answers your network’s domain lookups and drops the ones that appear on its blocklists, so ads and trackers served from those domains disappear on every device, including TVs and consoles. Free, open source, with a dashboard that shows what was asked and what was […]
AdGuard Home is Pi-hole’s polished cousin: one binary, a friendly setup wizard, encrypted upstream DNS and per-client rules, all self-hosted and open source. It covers everything Pi-hole does with a more modern interface. Some advanced conveniences lean toward AdGuard’s commercial ecosystem, and like any DNS blocker it cannot touch same-domain advertising. The easy recommendation if […]
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