Create AdGuard Directory: mkdir adguard.Head to your home (or docker) directory.Ensure you have Docker and docker-compose installed.Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home FeatureĪlthough it's a little dated we have a post on setting up Pi-hole here. This can save a significant amount of time when browsing the web, usually around 3-200ms per lookup. The caching a local DNS server provides can also be handy if you request and you already requested it 30 seconds ago it will serve that same IP without going off to fetch it. You can load in blocklists containing advertising or malware domains, so when your browser tries to access the request will simply get blocked (technically the IP of 0.0.0.0 is returned). The benefit of this setup is the blocking and caching it provides. When you try and access your computer will send a lookup for the IP address of, this query gets sent to your local server it then goes to the upstream such as Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), the response will then be forwarded to your device.

If you aren't already aware, you set up your network to use the local AdGuard/Pi-hole server for DNS. Pi-hole used to be the old favourite for this type of setup however they've fallen behind in recent years and most of the fans have moved onto AdGuard Home.ĪdGuard Home is another open-source DNS with blocking capabilities. Spice up your day by setting up a local DNS Server for network-wide ad, tracking and malware blocking.

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