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submitted 2 years ago by Kir@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hy everyone, I have a PiHole instance running on my home server, and I changed my router (Fritz box) DNS in order to use my PiHole. Everything runs great.

I was wondering if I can put another DNS provider on my "alternative DNS server" in my router, in order to have a fallback alternative in case my server is down, or if I should avoid it.

I'm asking this because I don't know if the request will be handled in parallel between the two DNS provider (that would make my PiHole useless) or not. Thank you.

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I setup a second pihole for redundancy.

90% of network traffic uses the primary, but some things like to use both or exclusively the secomd one on random days.

I use Gravity-Sync to keep the settings/lists between them identical. (lots of local dns records for local self-hosted stuff, and each device has a static ip + dns record to identify it easily in logs)

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