Like chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net said - I want to be able to add my own records (SRV, A, CNAME...) so that I can point to the services hosted in my VPN. CoreDNS is good for this but it doesn't also do adblocking. If PiHole can do this, I don't know how.
I also don't need a web UI, DHCP server, and so on: I just want a config file and some prometheus metrics
Yes (much simpler) and also allows you to specify custom DNS, which is very useful for more advanced self-hosted deployments - this is something PiHole is just not built to address
Ouch, thanks for catching that! Should be good now. Link here for the curious