AdGuardHome Can you hand out multiple DNS servers while running AdGuardHome on router?

[JasonW]

So I'm currently running Diversion because when I tried AdGuardHome on my RT-AX88U and seemed to get in the way of my dnsmasq.conf.add DHCP option 6 where I was handing out some extra DNS servers. Now I know you normally only want the AdGuardHome system to be the primary DNS but I have a situation where I use this method to get around a limitation in a VPN client my work uses. The extra DNS servers I hand out aren't actually real DNS boxes on my network but the VPN client doesn't filter the traffic so I'm able to properly connect to my lab systems without headache due to the self-signed certs I use. I would have to go down this long road of setting up a valid domain and using Lets Encrypt to get official SSL certs so I could use public routable addresses if I don't have the fake DNS server method.

I just can't figure out why it seems AdGuardHome seems to override my dnsmasq.conf.add file. I noticed the same behaviour when trying to use Unbound also. It seems Diversion is the only one not causing on issue but I'm having some issues with it recording client names but I can live with that since it is at least blocking ads.

Thanks,
Jason

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

So I'm currently running Diversion because when I tried AdGuardHome on my RT-AX88U and seemed to get in the way of my dnsmasq.conf.add DHCP option 6 where I was handing out some extra DNS servers. Now I know you normally only want the AdGuardHome system to be the primary DNS but I have a situation where I use this method to get around a limitation in a VPN client my work uses. The extra DNS servers I hand out aren't actually real DNS boxes on my network but the VPN client doesn't filter the traffic so I'm able to properly connect to my lab systems without headache due to the self-signed certs I use. I would have to go down this long road of setting up a valid domain and using Lets Encrypt to get official SSL certs so I could use public routable addresses if I don't have the fake DNS server method.

I just can't figure out why it seems AdGuardHome seems to override my dnsmasq.conf.add file. I noticed the same behaviour when trying to use Unbound also. It seems Diversion is the only one not causing on issue but I'm having some issues with it recording client names but I can live with that since it is at least blocking ads.

Thanks,
Jason

You could try installing AdGuardHome using this tutorial:

Tutorial - AdGuard Home - adblocker - Clean install on Asus Merlin (No 3rd party scripts !!!)

I have finally managed to install AdGuard Home on an Asus Router.... this is without using any special scripts. There was a previous forum post (here) on the same, but that involved installing using a custom script (that asked for your ssh login credentials, installed its own version of Samba...

www.snbforums.com

 

[JasonW]

Sorry, should have indicated I used the option from AMTM to do the install. Figured that was the best because it was included. I see if I use the manual method I could skip the part where it would take over the dnsmasq itself and I handle the redirect. That would probably solve my issue.

 

[JasonW]

Yay! I used the manual method to install and now I have AdGuardHome running and my dnsmasq is still working as I want it to.
Thanks

 

[JasonW]

Now the only issue will be that AMTM doesn't see this as installed. So when an update comes out I assume I will have to manually update. But that is not that bad.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Now the only issue will be that AMTM doesn't see this as installed. So when an update comes out I assume I will have to manually update. But that is not that bad.

Just follow their development on github and manually update when you see you want to.