Is there a pre-built one that one can just drop at relatives’ houses?
if you want to make it easy for them ( not for you , heh ) then a few ideas are
- Build it on an rpi 4 or cheaper device , and then ship it to them. Use cron for running automatic pi-hole and system package updates.
- Host it on a VPS for them ( and yourself while you are at it!). The hard part is restricting access to it. If they have a static IP, you can open port 53 to their ( and your!) public IP address. This is what I’m doing. Another, more difficult, more reliable, and more secure way, is to run a VPN server on the VPS and connect their network ( and yours!) to it.
There are free VPS’s out there, but I pay $4 / month to host a bunch of apps on a Hetzner VPS.
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Thanks!will get one and see how easy/hard it is to set up
I am running NEXT DNS since about a year and its great.
I was able to enable it on my Synology router so all network traffic is protected.
However sometimes you need to turn it off. The easiest way is to Switch to your Guest network that is setup with unfiltered DNS.