Pi-hole, Linux hosts file and local DNS

[Donald Mac McCarthy]

There may be a way to do it via dns, but why wouldn’t you use something like haproxy? You can use a single node instance to do it. I mention it because many devices have a very simple and/or old network stack that may not play as nice as a more full featured network stack. If they are all http/s based services, NGINX serves as a great option. Port information is not in the DNS specification. My $0.02.

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> On Sunday, Jul 25, 2021 at 2:13 PM, Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org (mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org)> wrote:
> You can assign domain names to local services internally using pihole. Yes. I do.
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> > >
> > > 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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