I finally got my home DNS filters to work everywhere, and Tailscale made it trivial

A home lab operator describes solving the problem of DNS ad-blocking and local domain resolution only working on their home Wi-Fi. Instead of exposing the DNS server publicly or paying for a cloud filtering service, they used Tailscale as a subnet router advertising their Technitium DNS pair to their tailnet, avoiding a second Tailscale install on each DNS container. The setup preserves failover via Keepalived, keeps MagicDNS working, and extends ad-blocking and local hostname resolution to devices away from home. The trade-off is that per-device DNS logs are lost since the subnet router rewrites source addresses to its own IP.

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