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AdGuard Home

Is a Linux Software that can handle DNS server duty. It can be installed on OpenWrt

Notes

  • Android 9+ supports DNS-over-TLS natively (default port: 853)

Setup

OpenWrt

  • Change DNS forwarding to your choosing like 9.9.9.9, and the DNS port to 53
  • Install
opkg update
opkg install adguardhome
service adguardhome enable
service adguardhome start

# Get the first IPv4 and IPv6 Address of router and store them in following variables for use during the script.
NET_ADDR=$(/sbin/ip -o -4 addr list br-lan | awk 'NR==1{ split($4, ip_addr, "/"); print ip_addr[1] }')
NET_ADDR6=$(/sbin/ip -o -6 addr list br-lan scope global | awk 'NR==1{ split($4, ip_addr, "/"); print ip_addr[1] }')
 
echo "Router IPv4 : ""${NET_ADDR}"
echo "Router IPv6 : ""${NET_ADDR6}"
 
# 1. Enable dnsmasq to do PTR requests.
# 2. Reduce dnsmasq cache size as it will only provide PTR/rDNS info.
# 3. Disable rebind protection. Filtered DNS service responses from blocked domains are 0.0.0.0 which causes dnsmasq to fill the system log with possible DNS-rebind attack detected messages.
# 4. Move dnsmasq to port 54.
# 5. Set Ipv4 DNS advertised by option 6 DHCP 
# 6. Set Ipv6 DNS advertised by DHCP
uci set dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].noresolv="0"
uci set dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].cachesize="1000"
uci set dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].rebind_protection='0'
uci set dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].port="54"
uci -q delete dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].server
uci add_list dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].server="${NET_ADDR}"
 
#Delete existing config ready to install new options.
uci -q delete dhcp.lan.dhcp_option
uci -q delete dhcp.lan.dns
 
# DHCP option 6: which DNS (Domain Name Server) to include in the IP configuration for name resolution
uci add_list dhcp.lan.dhcp_option='6,'"${NET_ADDR}" 
 
#DHCP option 3: default router or last resort gateway for this interface
uci add_list dhcp.lan.dhcp_option='3,'"${NET_ADDR}"
 
#Set IPv6 Announced DNS
for OUTPUT in $(ip -o -6 addr list br-lan scope global | awk '{ split($4, ip_addr, "/"); print ip_addr[1] }')
do
    echo "Adding $OUTPUT to IPV6 DNS"
    uci add_list dhcp.lan.dns=$OUTPUT
done
uci commit dhcp
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
  • Restart

Notes on upgrade

  • Configuration lives in /etc/adguardhome.yaml
  • After a sysupgrade, no DNS request will be processed
  • AdGuard needs to be reinstalled but old settings will persists

Custom Filtering rules

  • See documentation
  • Possibility of combining several rules, like ||something.local.net^$client=192.168.0.0/24,dnsrewrite=192.168.0.1