Pi-hole, Linux hosts file and local DNS

[Aaron Jones]

You can assign domain names to local services internally using pihole. Yes. I do. 

> On Jul 25, 2021, at 10:07 AM, Amit Nepal via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> If I am understanding your question correctly, you can use pihole to resolve ips to your local domain names like you can with linux hosts file, but I don't believe there is a way to include port numbers with DNS resolution.
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> Thank You,
> Amit
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> On 7/25/2021 12:08 AM, Steve B via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Is there a way to use Pi-holes local DNS functions to create entries for services on my local LAN? 
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>> For example if Pi-Hole is at http://192.168.1.160/admin can i create something that has that full URL? The Linux hosts file limits me to the IP address and I'm looking for a way to have anything that comes after the IP such as port numbers and such.
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