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Technitium DNS Server

Self-Hosting & Servers 2026-08-28
Portability note: Compose examples use rootless Podman and host.containers.internal (the host gateway from a container). When using Docker, replace podman-compose with docker compose and host.containers.internal with host-gateway (add extra_hosts: [host-gateway:host-gateway] to the service). All concepts, architecture patterns, and CLI commands are container-runtime-agnostic.

Technitium DNS Server

Purpose: Full-featured authoritative and recursive DNS server with a clean web UI. Goes further than Pi-hole and AdGuard Home — Technitium can host your own DNS zones (split-horizon DNS for home.local), act as a DHCP server, supports DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS/QUIC, has advanced conditional forwarding, and includes built-in ad-blocking. The right choice when you need proper DNS zone management alongside ad-blocking.

# ~/technitium-dns/compose.yaml
services:
  technitium-dns:
    image: technitium/dns-server:latest
    ports:
      - 53:53/udp
      - 53:53/tcp
      - 127.0.0.1:5380:5380
      - 853:853/tcp
      - 443:443/tcp
    volumes:
      - /home/user/technitium/config:/etc/dns:Z
    environment:
      DNS_SERVER_DOMAIN: dns.home.local
      DNS_SERVER_ADMIN_PASSWORD: changeme
    restart: unless-stopped
cd ~/technitium-dns && podman-compose up -d

Access the web UI at http://localhost:5380. Configure zones, forwarders, and blocklists in the admin panel.

Pi-hole vs AdGuard vs Technitium: Use Pi-hole or AdGuard for simple network-wide ad-blocking. Use Technitium when you also need to manage DNS zones for internal services or run DHCP from the same interface.

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