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How it compares to let's say AdGuard Home? Seems similar https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

I started on PiHole and moved to AdGuardHome and eventually landed on Technitium. I have a large home network and it does auto reverses and multiple record types that the others didn't. I really like Technitium.

Could you please explain what auto-reverse and multiple record types mean? The reason for asking is to learn what's missing from AG Home/DNS and maybe adding it in the future.

Auto-reverse means Auto RDNS zone creation. Where you're usually trying to translate hostnames to ip addresses, a reverse lookup translates an ip address to a hostname.

So, if I have an internal record, record.example.com @ 192.168.1.2, I can query the server to ask "Hey, who is at 192.168.1.2?" and the server would reply with "record.example.com". This works by creating not only the example.com zone, but also a "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" zone with the proper mappings. Technitium server will ask you to create the zone if it doesn't already exist when you create an A record for a zone.

https://knowledge.digicert.com/constellix/standard-dns/rever...

Sorry, for my benefit as well, I understand what you've said from a technical standpoint.

Do you mind elaborating on what this means real world in terms of what that allows you to do?

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