I’ve wanted to install pihole so I can access my machines via DNS, currently I have names for my machines in my /etc/hosts files across some of my machines, but that means that I have to copy the configuration to each machine independently which is not ideal.

I’ve seen some popular options for top-level domain in local environments are *.box or *.local.

I would like to use something more original and just wanted to know what you guys use to give me some ideas.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I just just use my public domain internally with a separate sub domain assigned to each device and each service. Pihole serves the local IPs for all of those instead of querying the public servers. Anything that’s meant to be internal only, doesn’t have a public DNS record and isn’t directly accessible from WAN.

    I then host openVPN to keep my mobile devices within my network and behind pihole, able to access my internal services. The public records/domain is just for services I share with others and so that I can reach my VPN.

    I’ve always considered ‘domain.tld’ to refer to the network (my lan in this case) and ‘subdomain.domain.tld’ to refer to the specific service/device within that network. Whether or not you can actually resolve that name and reach its service/device, plus how you’re actually routed there depends on where you’re connecting from (LAN/WAN/VPN).