Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

AdGuard Home

Published on 2021-09-27 in 💭 Thoughts

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Recently I wrote about finding new uses for my Raspberry Pi 4. Besides Tailscale I also installed Pi-Hole to filter advertising DNS requests.

After a bit of setup and configuration, it actually worked pretty well, but sometimes I did feel like requests were taking a bit long.

Today I came across AdGuard Home (AGH), which is a Pi-Hole alternative. However, AGH is much easier to install and set up. I installed it via Snap on the Pi. I also like AGH a bit more, because the code is written in Go and it runs more reliable and faster.

AdGuard Home also has a few more directly integrated features. It is possible to use encrypted DNS servers (DNS-over-HTTPS etc.) as upstream servers and there are statistics even with logging disabled.

Unfortunately, selective blocking or unblocking of domains seems to be a bit more complicated. I think I have to have a look at the syntax instructions a bit more.

Tags: AdGuard, Pi-Hole, Raspberry Pi

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Jan-Lukas Else Mein September ‘21 im Rückblick Es ist wieder an der Zeit für einen neuen Monatsrückblick. Mal schauen, was bei mir im September so los war.Da ich im letzten Monat einen längeren Internetausfall hatte, habe ich mich nach dem Urlaub daran gemacht, Maßnahmen einzuleiten, dass ich bei einem DSL-Ausfall zukünftig nicht mehr so eingeschränkt bin. Ich habe bei meinem Internet-Provider eine Zusatzfunktion gebucht, damit ich bei einem DSL-Ausfall einfach über LTE weiter surfen kann. Außerdem kann diese zusätzliche Bandbreite genutz…
Jan-Lukas Else My September ‘21 in Review It’s time again for a new monthly review. Let’s see what I was up to in September.Since I had a longer Internet outage last month, after my vacation I started to take measures so that I am no longer so limited in the future in case of a DSL outage. I booked an additional option (🇩🇪) with my Internet provider so that I can simply continue surfing via LTE in the event of a DSL outage. What’s more, this extra bandwidth can be used to make my Internet a bit faster. During a first DSL outage, whic…
James Loh Reply to jlelse: AdGuard Home I’m a big fan of PiHole as well, but do worry about how its all written in C with PHP on top. AdGuard home looks fantastic so I’ll be very interested to see how jlelse goes!
Jan-Lukas Else One year ago, I started using AdGuard Home instead of Pi-Hole to filter DNS requests and block ads and tracking. Yesterday, I switched to NextDNS instead. NextDNS has mostly the same features, but is hosted in the “cloud” and I have one less self-hosted service to care about. AdGuard Home is awesome, but NextDNS seems to be working great as well and also integrates with Tailscale easily.
- Latz In contrary to you, I like to have more services self-hosted to be more independent of cloud services. I use PiHole in a docker container and WatchTower to keep it up to date and it's running for over a year now without any problems.
- Don @en I'm in the same boat. But NextDNS did not convince me at all.Little to no feedback from the company concerning some questions/queries and nearly no service/support at all.And then a Inc. company somewhere in the US - no more details about them.At the moment I'm looking at AdGuard DNS https://adguard-dns.io/de/welcome.html as it gives me nearly day to day updates.But overall I have to trust this services.At home I'm still using Pi Hole with Unbound. So I do not depend on another company.