No more ads and parental control. Those are two use cases for ad blockers and DNS Filters like AdGuard Home or Pihole (R). Privacy and protection of your data in the internet, blocking ads and the use of DNS White Lists or Black Lists. The main challenge for many people is the integration in the network, i.e. the redirection of DNS traffic to the Pihole or AdGuard Home machine. We will have a look into 4 options, using DHCP option 6, the DNS Forwarder option, iptables filter rules on port 53 as well as running AdGuard Home directly on an OpenWrt Router.



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0:00 Please use the chapters

0:40 Why filter DNS ? Use cases
2:40 How DNS Filtering works
4:10 How Clients get to DNS
6:28 Solution 1: Announce DNS with DHCP
8:20 Solution 1: Implementation
9:50 Solution 1: Separate DHCP Server
13:45 Call To Action
14:25 Solution 2: DNS forwarder
16:40 Solution 3: Enforcement/iptables
19:40 Solution 3: Implementation
25:10 Solution 4: adguard home on OpenWrt
26:30 Solution 4: Implementation


The firewall rule for the redirect:

iptables t nat A PREROUTING m mac "!" macsource XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX p tcp dport 53 m addrtype "!" srctype LOCAL j DNAT to 192.168.1.245
iptables t nat A PREROUTING m mac "!" macsource XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX p udp dport 53 m addrtype "!" srctype LOCAL j DNAT to 192.168.1.245



(replace 192.168.1.245 witht he IP of your DNS filter and XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX with its MAC)



The commands that are used or mentioned in this video:


nslookup (host name)

opkg install iptablesmodextra
ip route

ip route del 192.168.1.0/24
netstat tulpn |grep 53