GitHub - Cottand/leng: :zap: fast dns server, built to block advertisements and malware servers
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A few months ago I went on a quest for a DNS server and was dissatisfied with current maintained projects. They were either good at adblocking (Blocky, grimd…) or good at specifying custom DNS (CoreDNS…).

So I forked grimd and embarked on rewriting a good chunk of it for it to address my needs - the result is leng.

  • it is fast
  • it is small
  • it is easy
  • you can specify blocklists and it will fetch them for you
  • you can specify custom DNS records with proper zone file syntax (SRV records, etc)
  • it supports DNS-over-HTTPS so you can stay private
  • it is well-documented
  • can be deployed on systemd, docker, or Nix

I have been running it as my nameserver in a Nomad cluster since! I plan to keep maintaining and improving it, so feel free to give it a try if it also fulfils your needs

  • @ikiddEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Probably speed. I find pihole really slow, and I’m running it as a VM on a Xeon server.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Talking about a Xeon CPU in a context vacuum is like talking about a car.
      A car is anything between 100€ rust bowl on wheels and a multi million € vehicle.

      So either we need a benchmark score like Passmark (or other platform of choice) score for single and multicore or your cpu model.
      Giving a piHole VM 1 or 2 cores from a CPU with a single core performance equal to a Raspberry Pi 3 is quite obvious why it isnt performing as well as say a shiny new Ryzen 7900X.

      Context is key.

      Mine runs in docker with full hardware access (no cpu/ram limits) on a i5-1135g7. The performance is (to me) pretty good.
      BUT I only tried a comparison with unbound which gave me so-so results.