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You want to reach your self-hosted services within your network easier.

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How about using the etc hosts file?

(Had to remove the slash to pass through cloudflare block)

This is only a viable option for a device running a desktop OS. How am I going to do that on an iPhone, or for my TV?

I get your point, but this is already solved in a much easier manner with an OprnWRT router (and GUI etc) and kind of a strawman's argument using DNS for that. OpenWRT comes out of the box even with social website toggles that require no configuration.

Granted, you still have to install OpenWRT, but I still think that running a root DNS isn't necessary for home setups.

Where the DNS server lives is a detail. What is a "root DNS"?

A Root domain, or a name server authoritative for such. I don't think OP meant either.

Technitium advertises itself with being able to serve as a root DNS, in both its documentation and on their blog [1]. So I think my argument is still valid, as it's way too over engineered to be a simple, self-hosted, home lab solution for the problem at hand.

[1] https://blog.technitium.com/2021/07/running-root-server-loca...

You can also add internal DNS records with Pi-Hole if you happen to be self hosting that as well.

Only for desktop OS, also do you update each hosts file on every client whenever something changes?

> Had to remove the slash to pass through cloudflare block

I was going to write: You can’t write a comment with the text / etc / hosts?!

But I tried it and got the CloudFlare block page. That’s pretty incredible that a tech focused forum blocks you for simply referencing a common file on all Unix file systems. What state a sad future we live in.

Trust me, I just found this out the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38986187

Not possible on some devices.

> How about using the etc hosts file

Works for one computer, doesn’t scale.

is it bad that i use rfc 1918 addresses on cloudflare dns

I find that preferable to trying to get split horizon working reliably enough that data isn't going out to the gateway half the time.

No. DNS is used for that.

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