$raspberry pi adguard home$

using DHCP for IP assignment (including DNS server assignment).

using dnsmasq instead of the default DHCPD daemon (for local hostname resolution on my lan).

My setup is probably different than your's so substitute settings where needed. If the edgerouter goes down, the internet will be down anyway so it's a non-issue. In doing this, I reduce the need for extra hardware and remove a point of failure. I have since moved to Adguard Home and offloaded this task to my Ubiquiti Edgerouter X.

Running it this way creates another point of failure, if the Pi goes down so does access to the internet. My pihole ran on a seperate Raspberry Pi board but I never liked this solution, keeping the Pi running just to act as a DNS resolver and blocker. Think of this, AdGuard could potentially make a site non working, with the Pihole this is easily fixable (whitelists).I used to run a pihole on my home network but recently moved to Adguard Home for simplicity. Who do you trust more? An open source adblocker with an active community or an open source company based adblocker?Īnd if your Pihole has secure passwords and doesn't run unsafe software, this isn't a big concern.īiggest advantage of the Pihole is, that you have full control over everything including blocklists. Just lol 3, don't use VPN or the Pihole as DNS for that device. Just lol 2, just add some more blocklist for adult sites.Īccess settings (choose who can use AGH DNS)✅❌ Parental control (blocking adult domains)✅❌ Running as a DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS server✅❌ (requires additional software)īlocking phishing and malware domains✅❌ (requires non-default blocklists) You can use Wireguard/OpenVPN for using pihole with your smartphone and other devices. Those options aren't hard to implement into Pihole.Ĭross-platform✅❌ (not natively, only via Docker)

A VPN can help here.Įncrypted DNS upstream servers (DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, DNSCrypt)✅❌ (requires additional software) HTTPS is not necessary if used locally, and you should never expose port 53/the Pihole publicly. HTTPS for the Admin interface✅Kind of, but you'll need to manually configure lighthttpd

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