Hello all,
I have been using OPNsense and Pihole together in my home environment. I have recently installed ZenArmor and upgraded it to a Home license. Do I really need both Pihole and ZenArmor? I feel like this is duplication of functionality.
Thanks,
Steve
Hi Steve,
In my opinion Pi-Hole and Zenarmor are complementary to each other because it's not to be expected that both systems are using the same blocklists.
Important to mention that Pi-Hole blocks on DNS name and Zenarmor can block on more criteria like web category or type of application.
ZA also has DNSBL, why not to use only ZA and disable PiHole?
i use them both together. only desktop and mobile clients get pihole DNS, as i have the blocking more aggressive. the reasoning, if something isn't working, ZA is more of a pain to disable / whitelist.
pihole has a great API, chrome, firefox extensions, making it easier to allow/deny urls with a few clicks from the browser, enable/disable blocking with a single click. same goes for iOS and Android, the pihole apps make it easy to temporarily disable blocking, reload the page/app and see if that is the issue.
ZA and unbound DNS blocklist system is primitive in comparison, IMO