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Comment by ThePowerOfFuet | Hacker News Reader

Why this instead of the very widely-deployed PiHole or NextDNS?

I went from piHole running in a container to this. All those weird spinners on youtube and unexplained confusing issues went away. This thing is awesome. The functionality is massive. It is like going from Openwrt to mikrotik. The only thing I find disturbing is, being a .net app, htop shows it using 100s of gigs of ram. I don't know what is going on with that, as it runs well and does not add any load to the host. Apparently it is normal dotnet thing.

Not .net: Shell, PHP and C.

And about 150M of virtual memory on my rpi.

Edit: Argh, I thought you meant pihole, sorry for the confusion

Looks like .net to me: https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer

Technitium IS .NET, you may be referring to PiHole?

So how low can you go? I'm running PiHole on some small SMBs with 1GB RAM.

Would be interested to know as well, looked around and couldn't find any minimum requirements listed anywhere

Trying to post a listing but cloudflare seems to block me from saying anything but one line.

  VSZ   RSS
 275156560 151048

using lxc info Memory 276.90MiB Swap 16.00KiB

wow, that is a PITA, just trying to be helpful. Anyway, seems a lot of virtual but next to no real memory.

edit: as I said, aside from the scary VM size, very small. I only have 60 local hosts though.

edit: ps, the dhcp/dns integration first class. I have a few networks and run a couple of dhcp namespaces and it all works perfectly, with multiple routes distributed. I could never get that going with piHole. I was running dndmasq for years before that.

Thanks. Time to dig in the drawers and see if I can't find another SBC to spin it up on.

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