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Author: wirelessduck
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] dnsmasq or unbound


> On 11 Mar 2023, at 17:28, capercally.bleery670@??? wrote:
>
> For a forwarding only, caching name server, which is to be picked?
>
> Some circumstances:
> - it will have to serve a local network (not just localhost)
> - it will have to log queries
> - eventually (though not initially), it will have to "blackhole" some
> queries to prevent some outbound connections
> - probably needs to run on a RaspberryPi with raspbian,
> but without systemd (I surgically removed it :-)


I’ve successfully used PowerDNS-recursor for this to block some outbound dns requests.

https://blog.powerdns.com/2016/01/19/efficient-optional-filtering-of-domains-in-recursor-4-0-0/

It does look like support was dropped for 32-bit raspbian in recent releases after 4.4 but there is a mention of future support for arm64 at some point.

https://blog.powerdns.com/2021/03/26/upcoming-package-removals/


Tom