WireHole
Infrastructure
self-hosted vpn and dns
SHOW HN2023
298points
139comments
#147of 3,109 in 2023
Top 5%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful and fills a setup gap
From 2 comments
This looks super useful. It is a bit convoluted to setup WG/PiHole/Unbound/foo and link them all together. But, it is not tedious enough that I’d ever put in the time to make a…
botanicalfriend on HNOoh, this is definitely something to play around with tomorrow. A split-tunnel on my phone would be nice!
sthlmb on HN
Objections
Licensing is unclear or inherits restrictive licenses from wg-easy and Pi-hole
From 3 comments
You went with a proprietary one :(
josephcsible on HNArguably you can't use pi-hole and wg-easy together (as the Composite Software License and EUPL are not compatible).
aragilar on HN>* Publish the changes on GitHub as an open-source & linked fork; Great an open-source license that mandates the use of a proprietary Microsoft product.
ThinkBeat on HN
Unbound is not a Pi-hole replacement; AdGuard suggested instead
From 2 comments
Replace Pihole and Unbound with AdGuard and this stack will instantly be more efficient, fast and significantly more powerful.
selfhoster69 on HNUnbound is not the intended to be a PiHole service. It's a resolver.
byteknight on HN
Requests
Add RISC-V support
From 1 comment
Notably missing RISC-V support. No good reason, either. What is needed for support is already in place.
snvzz on HN
Use AGPL or another open license
From 1 comment
Did you consider AGPL?
cpach on HN
Questions
How to fix DNS failing when WireGuard runs on Raspberry Pi
From 1 comment
I created an account after years of lurking. This does exactly what I want. Can anyone point me in the right direction? My pihole and unbound dna is working flawlessly and…
m1chae1 on HN
Alternatives named
wg-easy
From 1 comment
Hey, I’m the author of wg-easy, nice to see my project in here! As for all the license discussions, I just don’t want a company to pack my work and sell it as a commercial device…
weejewel on HN
AdGuard Home
From 2 comments
Replace Pihole and Unbound with AdGuard and this stack will instantly be more efficient, fast and significantly more powerful.
selfhoster69 on HNAdguard Home does too. Anyway, regardless, you can use dnsmasq with Unbound.
figmert on HN
Algo VPN
From 1 comment
See also Algo VPN: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
Nrbelex on HN
NextDNS
From 1 comment
Besides self hosting, is there anything this gives you that using NextDNS with a personal blocklist and adblock turned on can't do?
esperent on HN