Anyone know of an Adguard home or pihole equivalent service I can run as part of OPNSense? I currently have a different machine dedicated to pihole, but it would be intriguing to have something built in. I would imagine split DNS and firewall rules would be simpler this way.
AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
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#32What does this break, if anything? Anyone run into sites or apps where Adguard Home needed to be disabled? How easy was that?
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#33Happy AdGuard user here. It's running directly on my EdgerouterX so no need for an extra device to maintain. I really love the high level service blocking as well, blocking the whole of Facebook is just ticking a checkbox!
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#34Unsure if anyone here uses Technitium DNS(Opensource and free).
It works on minimal hardware. I am running it on an Orange Pi 3 LTS.
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#35I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS. Note: This is…
+1 for nextdns definitely, that would be also my preferred choice. Alternative and free for private usage is to set DNS to: dns.adguard-dns.com on your devices to block ads with DNS. UPDATE: it seems the old one was dns.adguard.com (which was blocked in some countries)
For the home-gamers without a strong grip of DNS, note that you can't enter a domain name into your resolver fields, you have to use the IPs:
94.140.14.14
94.140.15.15
2a10:50c0::ad1:ff
2a10:50c0::ad2:ff
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#36Will this work against ads on major streaming apps like prime, hulu, and netflix?
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#37Will this work against ads on major streaming apps like prime, hulu, and netflix?
No
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#38What does this break, if anything? Anyone run into sites or apps where Adguard Home needed to be disabled? How easy was that?
Perhaps obvious, but if you’re using mixpanel or posthog for analytics on anything you build, you’ll have to put them on exclusion lists, in order to be able to use their analytics platform.
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#39Sadly for the AdGuard team, there isn't much of an audience for this. It's one of those things everyone says they want but few people will actually install one, much less maintain one over time. Add to that the wife-forced uninstalls and the total long-term audience for this is (no kidding) in the thousands.
I guess I'm the exception to the rule, I spent a fair chunk of my previous weekend upgrading the hardware on my opnsense router/firewall so that I could virtualize opnsense and be able to glom on related services exactly like AdGuard Home easily.
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#40I ran a competing project[0] on my home network for a few years before I discovered NextDNS[1]. What I lost in performance (requests don't leave my house) I gained in portability: ALL my devices can take advantage – at home and away – and time-saved. PiHole works 90% of the time, but when it did stop working, I'd have to spend a bit of time fixing it. At $20/year, I simply couldn't compete with NextDNS. Note: This is…
Another great (and free!) option is Mullvad’s ad-blocking DNS over TLS or HTTPS.