Getting all the functionality of Pihole into Unbound would be a good deal more than “a little work” lol. And for no real practical reason when all you’re trying to do is set up secure DNS with some ad blocking on your network. And this is coming from a professional who wouldn’t have to “learn” anything to do it. If it was really that little work, Pihole + Unbound wouldn’t be the go-to solutions for so many people.

I mean if you want to build something around Unbound to do ad blocking and set up a monitoring stack for metrics and all that jazz that’s great, more power to you. But you already have two things built for purpose, there’s no reason to go out of your way to do that. And I don’t think OP here is prepared to do all that.

For the same reason you’re running AdGuard and not just pointing all your devices at the recursive upstream.

You’re using AdGuard / Pihole as an ad sinkhole, not just to cache and forward DNS requests. Like if you really wanted to you could hack together something in Unbound to do that, but why would you do that when Pihole already exists? You have two things built for purpose.

If you want to run your own recursive DNS server, why would you run two separate DNS servers?

I’m not sure I understand your question. A recursive DNS server and a local DNS cache/forwarder/are two different things with two different purposes. You will always need both. You yourself are using AdguardHome and that is just connecting to recursive DNS server upstream. In my scenario you’re just running both yourself instead of you running one and then letting a 3rd party run the other for you.

Your outbound queries will still be unencrypted, so your ISP can still log them and create an advertising profile based on them.

You can encrypt the recursive queries through your ISP if you want to. Though the effectiveness of any profiling your ISP would do to you are minimized by Qname minimization that Unbound does by default.

If you’re just using DoH then you’re just shifting who’s making that advertising profile on you from your ISP to whoever is hosting your upstream recursive DNS server. It doesn’t matter how much encryption you do because on the other end of that encrypted connection is the entity who you’re giving all your queries to.

I would say Pihole is a better choice than AdGuard home because PiHole just runs on top of dnsmasq. Throw Unbound on there too as your upstream recursive resolver and you’re set. You don’t even need to worry about an encrypted session to your upstream anymore because your upstream is now your loopback.

I think you are right but I wasn’t sure. Like technically you’ll still see the details if you open the certificate but… who’s doing that?

The point of paid SSL at this stage in the game are the higher tiers of verification. Instead of just verifying that you own the domain, you can verify that you are who you say you are. These are called Extended Validation and Organizational Validation certificates. This has historically been desirable by businesses. It used to be that these higher tier certs would not only give you a lock icon in the address bar of a web browser, but also a little blurb confirming your organization is legit. Not sure if this is still the case though. You will see the extended validation when you check the sites certificate though for sure.

As far as encryption and security, there’s no difference. Also side note, the Comodo brand still technically exists but it was bought by Sectigo like 7 years ago.

Yeah but also even when you’re paying, you’re still the product.

Idk Mark Rober has got that scam school thing going on now.

He appeared as a fake testimonial on a crypto investing learning site ad and that was point I realized dude was just a washed up reality TV celebrity and literally nothing more lol.

Huh, I’ve never seen a carpeted pet friendly room, for obvious reasons.

Rooms without carpeting, and non-refundable pet fees. Vinyl flooring makes cleaning up after pets trivial. The only issue you have is soiling of upholstery and potential chewing. But if everyone pays a $100 per dog fee, only a subset of those dog owners will cause any issues so the good dogs subsidize the cost for the bad dogs.

The fee and deposits sound steep, until you compare them with the astronomical costs of dog boarding.

I just paid a $250 cleaning fee at a hotel this past week. It was a dog friendly room and I had 2 dogs and stayed for 5 nights. The problem is that I paid a non-refundable $200 pet fee and a $250 cleaning fee, on top of being required to strip the beds and take the trash out to the dumpster myself on top of it.

I could have spent an hour removing dog hair from couches and sweeping it all up but with $450 in cleaning fees alone it’s difficult as a consumer to reconcile doing extra work. Problem is, who does that $450 go to? Somehow I feel like the housekeepers don’t see much of it.

As you can clearly see on the map, the front is in Ukraine. One operation has pushed part of it into Russia from the Ukraine, but the front line remains on their home soil. The goal of the operation that pushed into Russia is to remove the foreign invaders from the Ukraine, so its purpose is also to support the fighting that exists on the front in the Ukraine, their home soil.

Well then they better fight hard to win the war sooner so they can get a start on making their country habitable again. Operating into Russia seems like the fastest way to achieve that.

The front is on their native soil, which they don’t need to be sent to. Thats where they already were, it’s their own country.

It’s not a side, nor is it a take. It’s literally just what you’ve done here today and literally everyone but you can see that.

Every single comment you’ve made has been to downplay the legitimacy of Ukraine’s fight to defend their home from Russian invaders. That is the goal of Russia, meaning every comment of yours is pro-Russian agenda.

The thread is about an operation on Russian soil, during a conflict exclusively over Ukrainian soil. One group operating just over the border in Russia in a defensive war doesn’t change the fact that the front line is in Ukraine. The objecting of the operation remains restoring the sovereignty of Ukraine.

Their homeland is in fact the front. Their homeland consists of the entire country of Ukraine. Even the forests and the fields. Even the ruins of their homes. Even the graves of their loved ones killed by Russian invaders. The homes may have been destroyed by Russia, but once the war is won the Ukraines can return there. That is the point.

Every single post in this thread of yours is nonsense. Blatantly illogical and poorly reasoned pro-Russia propaganda. Not a single one of your arguments has any basis in reality and none of your assertions are even coherent.

The front where they’re fighting in on their home soil. They don’t need to be “sent there”, it’s their homeland. They’re not invisible lines in a map, it’s their land, their homes. The homes of their families, their friends, their community, their countrymen. They’re fighting for eachother. It doesn’t get any more noble than that. Nobody lives there anymore because of the foreign invaders. If they win the war, people can live there again. That’s literally what they’re fighting for, not “The government”.