XDA Developers on MSN

My DIY router has been my DNS, VPN, and ad-blocker for a year, and I'd never use an ISP router again

It's all thanks to OPNsense and its solid plugin support ...
Ars Technica

I need dns set within router to override settings on local machine - how's it done

You could block outbound DNS at the router/firewall, or conceivably transparently proxy it there. If these don't sound easy to you (and I'm guessing they don't, I don't know if anyone has even written ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Stop using Cloudflare's default 1.1.1.1 DNS (changing one digit blocks malware at the router level)

Everyone uses Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, but 1.1.1.2 is the one that actually protects you ...
Ars Technica

WiFi 6 Router that assigns DNS entry to local machine?

I've always ended up needing to install something like openwrt on my routers. I'm not particularly interested in continuing to need to do that as this seems like an obvious feature people might need ...