With FTLDNS, we finally implement official support for this, read more details below.
We, the Pi-hole core developing team, have discussed how to tackle this feature request best. It is clear that we do not want to implement this into our own DNS resolver at this stage, but want to rely on an already well-tested recursive DNS server. So, we had basically been three options available: Firstly, script everything up for this and install it during the initial installation; secondly, script everything up and give users the option to have it installed with with one keystroke; and thirdly, write a tutorial explaining how to do it in a few steps.
After some back and forth, we decided that the third option is the best for several reasons: Many users are installing Pi-hole on a vast amount of operating systems - Pi-hole is by far not limited to Raspberry Pis and Raspbian at this point. Coding such an automated script that will support all systems would be a major undertaking that could likely never be truly finished.
Presenting it in the form of a tutorial has a few advantages:
- One of them is that we get the possibility to explain a few further DNS principles so you can better understand how your newly configured system will behave and why this is preferential in terms of privacy and security.
- Another one is that users with non-standard systems will hopefully be able to adapt our instructions easily as we always describe what and why are doing something.
Our wiki article can be found here:
The implementation is already fully available in the most recent version of the FTLDNS beta testing branch.
It can also be implemented with Pi-hole v3.x, however, this will require some scripting (put server=127.0.0.1#5353 in your /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf and remove all other server lines in there). Note that with Pi-hole v3.x both CLI and the web interface won't support it and may behave unexpectedly.