Networking

This series is for the network layer around the lab: DNS, routing, service exposure, and the boring pieces that become important when everything else depends on them.

Overengineering Homelab DNS: dnsdist, Pi-hole, Unbound

1 January 2026·Updated: 30 July 2026·3193 words·15 mins

An Ansible-managed homelab DNS chain: dnsdist load-balancing seven Pi-hole containers into BIND 9 and Unbound over authenticated DNS-over-TLS, with measurements and the test that lied

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