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Technitium DNS Server is an open-source authoritative and recursive DNS server for self-hosting DNS with a focus on privacy and security. It provides a web console accessible through modern web browsers and can forward queries using DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS, or DNS-over-QUIC. It can also host local DNS zones and records, such as an A record directing a service domain to an internal reverse proxy for split-DNS access.

Pi-hole is a network-wide DNS server and ad-blocking tool developed by the Pi-hole Team. It can run in Docker or on a supported Linux system, including a Raspberry Pi, PC, virtual machine, or NAS, and can serve as the DNS server for an entire network or individual devices. It blocks advertising and tracking domains before they are downloaded, including requests from mobile apps, smart TVs, and IoT devices. Pi-hole provides a web interface with query statistics, client activity, upstream-server information, query logs, local DNS configuration, and settings management. It includes a built-in DHCP server, group-based filtering, allowlists and denylists with regular-expression rules, automatically updated community blocklists, configurable privacy modes, and a REST API with built-in documentation. A VPN such as WireGuard can extend its DNS-based blocking to devices on mobile networks or public Wi-Fi.

SmartDNS is an open-source local DNS server that sends client queries to multiple upstream DNS servers, measures the returned address candidates, and returns the fastest result to the client. It supports separate virtual DNS servers with different ports, rules, and clients; per-client rules based on IP or MAC address; domain routing; domain-specific address overrides; suffix matching for filtering; IPv4, IPv6, and DNS64; and cached, multithreaded asynchronous I/O. Its query and service protocols include UDP, TCP, DNS over TLS, DNS over HTTPS, DNS over QUIC, and DNS over HTTP/3, with optional SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy queries. The project supports Linux, Raspberry Pi, OpenWrt, Asus router firmware, Windows Subsystem for Linux, and Windows-related deployments, and provides build scripts for LuCI, Debian, OpenWrt, and Optware packages. It is distributed under the GPLv3 license.

Nginx Proxy Manager Guide is a repository-based guide with instructions and examples for using Nginx Proxy Manager as a local reverse proxy. It documents a split-DNS setup in which local DNS resolves services to the local proxy while external access uses a public proxy, with DNS-01 certificates, Technitium, and NetBird internal DNS. The guide also covers restricting an OpenCloud sign-in page from the public internet while preserving share links, and includes examples for Pi-hole and AdGuard. It is hosted in TechHutTV's homelab repository.