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AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by fdgadfagfgd »

evanreichard wrote: post #68
JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

I'm curious what issues you ran into with Pi-hole? I was running my instance for years without a single hiccup. I ended up moving to AdGuard Home about a year ago though because I wanted to run it on my OPNSense box. I have an automatic WireGuard VPN set up on my devices to VPN into my home network when I'm not connected to my SSID, so my local DNS still works remotely.

I think op's saying local DNS was fine and preferred, just not usable outside the home network.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by Crosseye_Jack »

Also runs on home assistant. The only thing to remember is when your updating HA (or you forget that your HA pi is not on the UPS, and you trip your GFI when doing home maintenance on your ring main) that your DNS also goes down.

Side note: it’s always DNS…

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by Dries007 »

Crosseye_Jack wrote: post #72

Also runs on home assistant. The only thing to remember is when your updating HA (or you forget that your HA pi is not on the UPS, and you trip your GFI when doing home maintenance on your ring main) that your DNS also goes down. Side note: it’s always DNS…

Exactly why I run my DNS on an old pi just for that and some minor watchdog stuff.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by raajg »

Been 4 months and I'm pretty happy with the following setup: PiHole + RaspberryPi + Tailscale

With Pihole running on a tailnet all my devices use it by default as long as they're on the same tailnet. That way I have seamless ad-blocking even when I'm on cellular data or my friends' wifi networks.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by stranded22 »

JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

I love nextdns - pihole was fine but required admin, and I also had challenges vpn’ing in to use it out side of home. Whereas nextdns is simple to use, and effective.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by temp0826 »

JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

Happy nextdns user here who used to have an overly-complicated setup with pihole and vpns etc. The only thing I have to complain about is the iOS app- I really wish it had a builtin way for viewing logs and white/blacklisting domains from the app, without having to go to the site. (Other settings would be nice too, sure, but as aggressive as I run it I find myself fiddling with the whitelist the most)

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by JaggedJax »

JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

I've used ControlD [https://controld.com/] for this and liked it. Does anyone know how NextDNS compares to it?

ControlD has worked well for me, outside a few UI complaints I have with their site. I do have some concerns with trust as I don't know much about ControlD, and I'd rather use the most trusted service for this.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by air7 »

drewg123 wrote: post #6
JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

I love NextDNS. The one (fairly huge) issue that I have is that it cannot handle captive portals when its enabled on my iPhone. So if I'm joining the wifi on a plane, etc, I need to remember to turn it off. This means that I cannot recommend it to my non-technical friends.

A general trick for bringing up the captive portal manually is to browse to a non ssl url such as http://example.com

The portal would unapologeticly mitm the server response with a redirect to the portal login page.

The domain needs to exist (to pass DNS) and not have HSTS, but otherwise any address will do.

Re: AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server

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Post by oceanplexian »

i2shar wrote: post #50
JadoJodo wrote: post #3

I 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…

Haven’t used NextDNS but have used PiHole and currently running AdGuard Home. But if you are paying $20/year just for DNS encryption/blocking, you may consider upgrading to Mullvad which gives you DNS Ad blocking but also IP anonymity, tunneling etc.

Except all of these third party VPN and DNS type services are literally NSA honeypots and privacy nightmares. I get that you have to do DNS lookups somewhere, but I'm not going to make it ridiculously trivial for a bad actor to scoop up all that data conveniently in a central location.
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