[Dnsmasq-discuss] About resolution performance and adblock

[Buck Horn]

Hi Ercolino,

On 24.11.24 17:26, Ercolino de Spiacico wrote:
> (...) Also, Pi-Hole requires additional HW, where FreshTomato runs on
> a simple router with optional USB storage.

pihole-FTL may require more resources to run than plain dnsmasq (mostly
memory), but it does not tie to any specific hardware.
It can be used as a drop-in replacement for dnsmasq, and it runs on any
supported OS (Debian (in different flavours),Ubuntu,Fedora,CentOS
Stream). While router OSs are not among those, there are some
third-party efforts in getting it to run on some, e.g.
https://github.com/jacklul/entware-pi-hole/ for an Asus router.

>
> The modification you mentioned the Pi-Hole team applied to dnsmasq are
> very interesting for sure, are they or can they be made public?

Pi-hole's code is published on GitHub.
The link I've shared in my previous post would also point you to
Pi-hole's GitHub repository. ;)

Kind regards,
     Buck