You're running Pi-Hole wrong! Setting up your own Recursive DNS Server!

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Pi-Hole is an awesome service to run in your house. It keeps ads from loading on every device, and will run on any Raspberry Pi, Docker container or virtual machine you'd like. But did you know it can do SO much more than just block ads? You can also completely bypass 3rd party DNS servers like 8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1, 208.67. 222.222, or the ones ran by your ISP.

But first... What am I drinking???

Freigeist Bierkultur's Aufschneider, a 'Hoppy German-style Hefeweizen Ale'. This reminded me a lot of a Radler... you know, a lager mixed with grapefruit soda? But think of a Hefe mixed with a Pale Ale. It's better than it sounds, but it's also neither a Pale Ale, nor a Hefe. Not bad, but not for me.

Installation Steps
Install Ubuntu Server 20.04 (https://ubuntu.com/download/server)
Install Pi-Hole - sudo curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
Set the Web Admin Password - pihole -a -p [password]
Install Unbound DNS - sudo apt install unbound
Create Unbound Configuration File - sudo nano /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/pi-hole.conf
Copy example config - https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/u...
Restart Unbound to apply Configuration - sudo service unbound restart
Disable Forwarding DNS in PiHole
Set Custom DNS in PiHole - 127.0.0.1#5335

And you're done! Bonus points for sending all DNS traffic through a VPN Gateway to encrypt all outbound requests -    • VPN Everything! OpenVPN Gateway Tutorial  

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