Does this have a clear advantage over Pihole? I see the android app and that's nice but not enough of a killer feature (for me to want) to switch.
Pihole still offers nice things that a cloud solution can't, like local network resolution and DHCP.
Pihole still offers nice things that a cloud solution can't, like local network resolution and DHCP.
Not everyone sees this as an advantage, and even if you do see it that way, you still might not need it. If PiHole works for you, keep using it. I actually want this because I want to share my adblocking/secure DNS setup with my less-technical friends and family, none of whom live with me/share a network/VPN. So needing no new software on their end, just a new resolver to be configured, is very appealing. It can work everywhere on all their devices and it's very easy to configure.
Taking it further: you can customize the DNS path as you wish with your own code in these designs. It's definitely not for everyone and if you like the convenience DHCP/local resolution provides, I wouldn't necessarily switch. But once you actually can like, use your DNS endpoint as an API, and you can configure your DNS resolver programmatically from any language anywhere via HTTP APIs, a lot of neat things become possible. I actually configure my custom DNS resolvers with custom service names pointing to my local devices already; I don't rely on just DHCP+hostname to provide the right resolvable name. And doing this can be as simple as a POST request to a custom endpoint I wrote; the resolver can then just serve custom A/AAAA records for those entries. So if you want flexibility/a custom DNS network, it's very appealing. But if you don't want it, I wouldn't worry about it much.
As an aside: for a generic replacement for pi-hole inside and outside one’s local network, NextDNS (it’s not self-hosted) works fine. It allows setting up ad blocking and tracker blocker filters from common filter lists, allows custom allow and deny lists, and provides 300k queries a month in the free plan (when this limit is exceeded, the DNS works but not the filter lists).
We do an average of ~7k DNS requests per day, somehow. Our max day was 26000 requests ... I assume everyone is abusing DNS for tracking (heartbeat of some sort?).
Microsoft seem to hit the pihole rate limits often, presumably if you block their tracking domains they think making hundreds of requests a minute is the way forward ... it's almost like they're trying to DoS me with my own computer.
NextDNS/Adguard-DNS are more user friendly options.
You may be right, but a serverless resolver ain't anything I've seen before! Awesome project, and I'm glad to see that it all comw together-- not all projects do!
If you take a base case of ~1gbps simultaneous fiber link at your house and you are within 10s of miles, the added latency will probably be noticable but not horrendous (back of the napkin says 20-100ms, mostly due to 5g wireless hiccups and cross-network carrier transit).
Browsing HN: May not notice
Watching YouTube or other more bandwidth intensive activities: Probably could notice a little lag and/or longer load times. Even if you have 1gbps upload at home, in some (or many) cases you may only achieve 100mbps or possibly even less to your device (I've tested this manner of Wireguard PTP extensively IRL).
Mileage will vary.