Dns

A few months ago I switched from using Pi-hole to AdGuardHome for serving adblocking DNS to not just the clients in my home, but also my mobile devices. There were a few reasons for this, but chief among them was its proper support for DNS-over-TLS (DOT) and DNS-over-HTTPS (DOH). I had previously been running unencrypted DNS via Tailscale, but because of the way I have things configured, this mean that every DNS request from an external device looked like it was coming from my subnet router. ...

So, story time. Boss has a friend who does IT for an electrical contractor 30 mins or so away from our primary office, and he brings us in because he’s having DNS issues he can’t figure out Get onsite there and go over his setup – typical mess of a network closet with no brand consistency and mismatched patch cables, whatever. Otherwise looks good from a network perspective. However, he mentions that he has no access to the firewall since it’s owned by the ISP. ...