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It can be useful to create wildcard domains for local services.  Rather than create one for each local service, a wildcard is easier. It would be easy to use dnsmasq to do this, but Pihole no longer directly supports that.

There are two options to get this to work:

misc.dnsmasq_lines

The developers of Pihole anticipated that we might have this very need. In the GUI, switch to Expert mode and then go to All Settings->Miscellaneous. Scroll down to misc.dnsmasq_lines where you can add individual values that will be injected into the configuration.

Add address=/.local.mydomain.com/192.168.1.16 for a wildcard. (The leading . is vital!)

Regex domain redirects

You can create wildcard domain directs using a regex rule in Pihole like this:
(^|\\.)local\\.mydomain\\.com\$;reply=192.168.1.16

Set the rule to "Regex Deny" to have the rewrite work.

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viscount-monty commented Jan 1, 2026

Thanks! Just what I was looking for 👍

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