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and what does this do that pi-hole doesn't? or what does this do better than pi-hole does?

It does what pi-hole does and a lot more. Has encrypted DNS protocols like DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, and DNS-over-QUIC support and also has built-in recursive resolver.

It is trivial to get pihole working with DoH. Just pair pihole with DNSCryptProxy.

Sure, but its not what pi-hole does or support. You need to install another software and forward requests to it. Technitium DNS has this feature built-in along with support for DoT and DoQ, including support for DoH/3.

Can't add anything for the first question, but as for the second

>what does this do better than pi-hole does?

I block or redirect a few external DNS servers, like Google's, to a local DNS server and some devices go absolutely abeshit if the reply doesn't look like they expect. Like thousands of DNS lookups in minutes. Enough to kill pi-hole both on an RPI4, but also running on the same server as Technitium (dual Xeon proliant). So it seems it is more robust?

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