Any real benefit to Running Pihole for DNS at this point?
Hi all,
Forgive me for what might be a stupid question, but i'm still getting to grips with these topics.
I am in the process of setting up a home server / lab environment to host services and apps for my family and for other experimentation. the usual story i guess, and the goal is to be able to easily and safely reach those services.
I have an RB5009 with a more or less standard config at the moment.
From what ive read on the internet the general recommendation is (or was) to use your router for DHCP > Pihole for DNS > Reverse Proxy for access to services.
However seeing as now RouterOS has both adlists and local / static DNS configuration options, i'm wondering if there are any other benefits to using Pihole.
Does Pihole do anything RouterOS can't ?or is is simply ease of use? or more only a benefit for users who's routers don't offer those functionalities?
Thanks in advance, feel free to let me know i'm an idiot if i'm way of base with my understanding of these topics!