Using dnsforge.de on your homenetwork

Many of you might know Pi-hole and use it for blocking ADs. I also used it for a long time in my homenetwork, running it on a Raspberry Pi. A customer of mine then drew my attention to dnsforge.de.

What is dnsforge.de?

dnsforge.de is a censorship-free, secure and redundant DNS resolver without logging, but with an ad blocker.

The server are hosted in Germany. dnsforge.de also offers clean.dnsforge.de, which offers parental control blocklists and Safe Search for search engines and YouTube.

The main reason for using dnsforge.de was convenience. Instead of running Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi, my AVM Fritz!Box can use dnsforge.de. This eliminates an additional server for me, which needs to be maintained. To use dnsforge.de with your AVM Fritz!Box just add the DNSv4 and DNSv6 servers to your configuration (“Internet > Zugangsdaten > DNS-Server”). I also enabled DNS over TLS (DoT).

The current config can be found on dnsforge.de. The current settings are:

DNS
IPv4: 176.9.93.198
IPv4: 176.9.1.117
IPv6: 2a01:4f8:151:34aa::198
IPv6: 2a01:4f8:141:316d::117
Port: 53

DNS-over-TLS
Hostname: dnsforge.de
SPKI: m51QwAhzNDSa3G7c1Y6eOEsskzp6ySzeOqy0LKcptDw=
Hostname: clean.dnsforge.de
SPKI: Umf7rVNEop498ZxvfrfhiwaD224VhR3NrwVrIOsdftY=
Port: 853
Issuer: Let's Encrypt

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