ZenArmor and Pihole

[spetrillo]

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

[db9]

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.

[logi]

ZA also has DNSBL, why not to use only ZA and disable PiHole?

[dirtyfreebooter]

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