NextDNS vs AdGuard Home

[ChaoscripT]

Hi,
I want to hear your thoughts about this comparison,
Currently I use NextDNS and considering replacing to Adguard Home (on RPi).
My router is OPNsense.
Things that important for me,
1. Ability to give each profile/machine different settings
2. I love that in the Adguard I don't limited for 1 Upstream
3. Connect also to the DNS from outside the house (iPhones, iPad, Android)

Regards.

 

[Tech9]

1. AGH can do different filtering settings per client
2. AGH has multiple upstream options, but can also use Unbound in OPNsense as resolver
3. Do this with VPN connection back to your network for your mobile devices

 

[ChaoscripT]

1. AGH can do different filtering settings per client
2. AGH has multiple upstream options, but can also use Unbound in OPNsense as resolver
3. Do this with VPN connection back to your network for your mobile devices

Thanks for reply,
2. Unbound is prefer then Google/Cloudflare etc?
3. It's important which VPN I use? Wireguard? Tailscale? I just want to resolve the DNS and block ads from outside from my home not all the traffic/content via the VPN

About the RPi,
4. 8GB RAM is enough for Adguard Home?
5. I want to turn on the RPi with PoE (because I have PoE switch) it's will works good it's must use electricity?
6. Need to install the Adguard home on MicroSD right?

Regards.

 

[Tech9]

2. Unbound is the default DNS server in OPNsense. It can be used as Resolver or Forwarder. Or your AGH can do Forwarder... whatever you prefer based on your needs and/or expectations.
3. Mobile devices are perfectly fine with the popular OpenVPN. The OpenVPN Connect client is available for multiple platforms. You need public WAN IP in order to use VPN server on your gateway.

Sorry, I have no idea what RPi you are talking about... AGH can be installed in OPNsense.

Setup AdGuard Home on OPNsense

If you are running OPNsense at home, and also want to run local DNS filtering, then the AdGuard Home plugin is the easiest way to run every thing on the same

ryanwinter.org

 

[cptnoblivious]

Thanks for reply,
2. Unbound is prefer then Google/Cloudflare etc?
3. It's important which VPN I use? Wireguard? Tailscale? I just want to resolve the DNS and block ads from outside from my home not all the traffic/content via the VPN

About the RPi,
4. 8GB RAM is enough for Adguard Home?
5. I want to turn on the RPi with PoE (because I have PoE switch) it's will works good it's must use electricity?
6. Need to install the Adguard home on MicroSD right?

Regards.

4. way overkill - I run a VM with 512MB of RAM for one of my Adguardhome setups. It needs very little in terms of resources. My other install runs on a 4B with 4 GB RAM, it's currently use just over 2 GB with OS and other stuff besides Adguardhome running on it.
5. RPI's don't run over POE, get a good USB power supply
6. You need to install Adguard home, the RPI setup determines if it's on MicroSD or external drive

 

[Tech9]

This extra RPi is not needed when the main router is running OPNsense.

 

[bbunge]

I save all the trouble and use the free Control D (76.76.2.2, 76.76.10.2) set in my router and using DoT. I have retired my Pi-Hole as Control D does a good job. And Control D has several other options. As for my mobile devices? They use VPN to connect back to the home router which provides filtered DNS.

 

[Sander_H]

About the RPi,
4. 8GB RAM is enough for Adguard Home?
5. I want to turn on the RPi with PoE (because I have PoE switch) it's will works good it's must use electricity?
6. Need to install the Adguard home on MicroSD right?

Regards.

4. 8GB is more than enough
5. Do you have PoE HAT?
6. Depends on your RPi and OS how and where to install.

 

[ChaoscripT]

2. Unbound is the default DNS server in OPNsense. It can be used as Resolver or Forwarder. Or your AGH can do Forwarder... whatever you prefer based on your needs and/or expectations.
3. Mobile devices are perfectly fine with the popular OpenVPN. The OpenVPN Connect client is available for multiple platforms. You need public WAN IP in order to use VPN server on your gateway.

Sorry, I have no idea what RPi you are talking about... AGH can be installed in OPNsense.

Setup AdGuard Home on OPNsense

If you are running OPNsense at home, and also want to run local DNS filtering, then the AdGuard Home plugin is the easiest way to run every thing on the same

ryanwinter.org

WOW!
I used the guide, Thank you so much!
You saved me few hundred bucks.

I try to use Unbound as resolver but I experienced some problems, so I switch it to work as Forwarder,
The AGH is listen to port 53, Unbound is listen to port 5353 then forward TLS queries to Cloudflare/Quad9/Google DNS.

I now need to find how to use the OpenVPN.

4. way overkill - I run a VM with 512MB of RAM for one of my Adguardhome setups. It needs very little in terms of resources. My other install runs on a 4B with 4 GB RAM, it's currently use just over 2 GB with OS and other stuff besides Adguardhome running on it.
5. RPI's don't run over POE, get a good USB power supply
6. You need to install Adguard home, the RPI setup determines if it's on MicroSD or external drive

Thanks for reply,
I know that RPi have some PoE HAT or something like that, that can turn it on.

I already installed it on my OPNsense router.

I save all the trouble and use the free Control D (76.76.2.2, 76.76.10.2) set in my router and using DoT. I have retired my Pi-Hole as Control D does a good job. And Control D has several other options. As for my mobile devices? They use VPN to connect back to the home router which provides filtered DNS.

Thanks for reply,
I switched from NextDNS to AGH, I know about Control D, they seems to be the next best player (I think, from what I read).
NextDNS don't have much support or development.

4. 8GB is more than enough
5. Do you have PoE HAT?
6. Depends on your RPi and OS how and where to install.

Thanks for reply,
Yes if I would go with RPi, it will be with the PoE HAT.
But already @Tech9 give me good solution through the router.

 

[FourthandShort]

Thanks for reply,
2. Unbound is prefer then Google/Cloudflare etc?
3. It's important which VPN I use? Wireguard? Tailscale? I just want to resolve the DNS and block ads from outside from my home not all the traffic/content via the VPN

About the RPi,
4. 8GB RAM is enough for Adguard Home?
5. I want to turn on the RPi with PoE (because I have PoE switch) it's will works good it's must use electricity?
6. Need to install the Adguard home on MicroSD right?

Regards.

As an aside I use Tailscale for my VPN solution. I use the Tailscale DNS option and point that at my AdGuard Home DNS server. Works well. I am now trying to fine tune the settings.

 

[ChaoscripT]

As an aside I use Tailscale for my VPN solution. I use the Tailscale DNS option and point that at my AdGuard Home DNS server. Works well. I am now trying to fine tune the settings.

Do you use OPNsense also?
It's hard to install Tailscale?
You have iPhone or android ?

 

[FourthandShort]

Do you use OPNsense also?
It's hard to install Tailscale?
You have iPhone or android ?

Installing Tailscale is incredibly easy. The setup involves installing an app on each device you would like to add to your "tailnet" which is essentially a subnet. You can then setup a device (for me it is my primary home desktop pc) with the ability to serve as an exit point. This means when a device chooses to use that exit point, all traffic will route to that pc/device and access the internet/intranet from that location. When setting up an exit route, if you want the devices to also have access to local network devices, you would want.

They have really good documentation here: https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets

I have then replaced the DNS servers within Tailscale to use my Adguard DNS server. The only challenge is if that DNS server is down (due to a reboot or power outage) the devices setup to use Tailscale DNS servers (my adguard) will lose connectivity. I simply go into Tailscale and disable the DNS if that happens until I can find out why the server is offline.

Tailscale is available for most devices (ios, android, pc, linux, etc).