I trialed nextDNS based on other people talking about it here, and have really liked it - it’s really awesome to have an always on, dns-over-https solution for every device. I think it’s really worth the 20$ per year, just for the slick ui and not having to manage a pihole somewhere.
I was not aware of this service before, but I’m very interested! The price seems very reasonable, and as you say, not managing a pi-hole device is very appealing. I have tried multiple times to setup pi-hole on a dev board on my home network, and could never get it to work properly so I gave up.
As a counter-example, I was amazed at how simple it was to set up Pi-Hole. I thought they had the setup workflow built pretty well. Took me ~10 minutes including flashing a SD card with Raspbian.
That’s fair. I do like the project, and everything is well documented and easy to follow.
I should have prefaced my statement with the fact that I was trying to install it on something other than a raspberry pi. I have only tried on my Rock Pro 64 board. But to be fair, they are pretty mature, well supported boards at this point.
I understand that it is designed to run on Pi boards first so the issue is likely my specific hardware. But Pi-hole is supposed to be compatible with Ubuntu 18.04 so I would have expected it to work regardless?
I’m not a networking expert though, if anyone has experience with pi-hole on Rock pro’s or other Pine boards I’d love to know!
Maybe I’ll just go ahead and invest in one of the new Pi boards with 4Gb memory :) That was the main reasons I got the Rock Pro 64 to begin with.
Certainly should work just fine - I've installed pi-hole a few times, and its never been on an actual RasPi. Not sure what Linux distro you're running on the Rock Pro, but I can't recommend Armbian enough for these sort of boards: https://www.armbian.com/rockpro64/
Install, and run armbian-config to get get an easy Pi-hole installer (among many other functions).
Thanks, I think I will try again with Arabian. It’s been a while since I tried, I think Armbian was not available at that time. Something must have been wrong with the other Ubuntu/ Debian builds I tried.
