AdGuard Home plugin+DNSMasq+Unbound(?)

Started by fumantsu, May 28, 2025, 05:00:56 PM

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Hi guys,
I would like an opinion on the best way. I have AdGuard Home plugin (port 53) where all requests passing on this. Currently I have Unbound+ISC for DNS DHCP with static entries and overrides mostly for most of home and IOT devices and thinking to move to DNSMasq where to be fair I feel more conformable (from OpenWRT times). My question is: having this setup (couple static DNS entries and/or DHCP entries, some overrides, no DoH or blacklists) do I need Unbound?

I would keep minimal dependencies, thus eliminate Unbound, using DNSMasq for DHCP & local DNS only.

May 29, 2025, 04:39:02 PM #2 Last Edit: May 29, 2025, 04:42:11 PM by julsssark
I use Clients->AdGuard->Unbound for DNS lookups and Unbound->DNSmasq for local queries. I followed the docs to implement it and changed the ports to keep AdGuard using port 53. I am only using IP v4 and my setup has some VLANs.

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/dnsmasq.html#dhcpv4-with-dns-registration