I’ve wanted to install pihole so I can access my machines via DNS, currently I have names for my machines in my /etc/hosts files across some of my machines, but that means that I have to copy the configuration to each machine independently which is not ideal.

I’ve seen some popular options for top-level domain in local environments are *.box or *.local.

I would like to use something more original and just wanted to know what you guys use to give me some ideas.

  • liquoredonlife@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I did something similar, though I’ve done a slight bifurcation-

    *.i.domain.tld -> the actual internal host/IP (internal dns is adguard)

    *.domain.tld all resolve internally using a DNS rewrite to a keepalived VIP that’s shared between a few hosts serving caddy that handle automatic wildcard cert renewals / SSL / reverse proxy.

    While I talk to things via *.domain.tld, a lot of my other services also talk to each other through this method - having some degree of reverse proxy HA was kinda necessary after introducing this sort of dependency.