Wildcard Dns Pihole

15/07/2022

If you’re running a homelab you might be running a DNS server, like bind to manage your DNS records, zones, etc, and frankly, bind does an excellent job at that. However, sometime you might find your self running a home lab with a service like Pi-Hole.

With Pi-Hole you can create a custom DNS with a simple click, but you can’t create a wildcard DNS via web interface.

Why a wildcard DNS?

If you plan to run a kubernetes cluster, openshift, traefik or reverse-proxy you need point all subdomain name into a one ip.

Create a wildcard DNS

Connect to Pi-Hole machine or container and follow these steps:

go to /etc/dnsmasq.d/
create a new file, lets call it 02-my-wildcard-dns.conf
Edit the file and add this:
```
address=/my-wildcard.home/192.168.1.40
```
Save and exit
Restart Pi-Hole service with
```
service pihole-FTL restart
```

You can add one ore more wilcard dns rule in step 3 as you want.

🎉 Happy dns