Adguard home is network wide DNS filtering software. It is considered a alternative to pi-hole. But it has a lot more features compared to pi-hole as a result it is also slightly resource heavy compared to pi-hole. It has a fancy Web UI. User friendly setup process.And it supports Windows, Mac and Linux unlike pi-hole […]
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Why bother? To eliminate DNS leaking. By doing so we are forcing every device to go through our DNS filter. Process Intercept and redirect DNS queries. Port forward On the OpenWRT router under Network > Firewall > Port Forwards, I added the following rule: Under the Advanced Settings of the new port forward rule I added: Which indicates
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The problem Pi-hole is provides DNS filtering solution and local DNS record but for the actual DNS resolution it relies on Public DNS resolvers like Google, OpenDNS, Cloudflare etc. It does not actually make the requests private and here comes the role of unbound. Unbound can act as a recursive DNS server or it can
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Why use Pi-hole? Pi-hole is relatively easy to use, consumes less ram compared to ‘AdGuard Home’ a very common alternative to Pi-hole. Setup process Update all packages Run the official one liner command to install Pi-hole Navigate through the setup process. After install visit http://<IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_PI_HOLE>/admin/ you’ll be greeted with the login page of pihole. You
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