Raspberry Pi as (Local) DNS Server

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• sleddog Member

  January 2014

  joodle said: websites seems to load faster now also using a local DNS Server instead of using an external one hosted at a VPS

  The difference with local caching, or that VPS was very slow/far away, or the placebo effect. My vote is for #3
• Janevski Member

  January 2014

  @joodle said:
  Everything is working fine on my RPi, websites seems to load faster now also using a local DNS Server instead of using an external one hosted at a VPS

  Are You using BIND?
• BuyCPanel_Alex Member

  January 2014

  I use a raspberry PI as my DNS server at home with maybe 3-4 devices and it works just fine. (But why go through that much effort to block ads, why not just use ad block?)
• CharlesA Member

  January 2014

  They have adblock for Android, right?

  I think the only reason I would run a local DNS server (that isn't on my router) is either 1) Caching DNS queries or 2) Test environment.
• BlazeMuis Member

  January 2014

  @BuyCPanel_Kevin said:
  I use a raspberry PI as my DNS server at home with maybe 3-4 devices and it works just fine. (But why go through that much effort to block ads, why not just use ad block?)

  Ad block for android requires a rooted device