
You can think of DNS as the "address book" of the Internet. Just to refresh your knowledge, DNS stands for "Domain name system", and its purpose is to translate websites' names into something browsers can understand, i.e. Why? Because DNS is the answer! What DNS-level blocking is Then buckle up and get ready for a fascinating journey through the past, present, and future of DNS filtering. But what if you want to widen this "window" and have it all? It provides just a tiny window into the "better Internet" without aggressive and intrusive banners vying for your attention. Given that ads and ad trackers are everywhere the Internet is, a browser-based ad blocker seems to be not enough. So you can either watch the video or read this text to learn about content blocking at scale.Ībsolutely everything is connected to the Internet these days, from TV to smart light bulbs, from mobile devices to smart auto. Testing upstream from within adguard shows nothing odd.This article was written based on a talk given by AdGuard's CTO and co-founder Andrey Meshkov at Ad Blocker Dev Summit 2021. Shortly after after there was another update that made adguard accessible again in HA but I still couldn’t use adguard as a dns. I can recall that something wasn’t right with that update, like I couldn’t access adguard at all from within HA. The only thing I can think of related to the issue is that adguard was updated when the issue occurred.

This was maybe two months ago (I can be a bit off with how long ago it actually was). I changed dns servers to a manual dns server (cloudflare, same as I use in adguard) and it worked again.

Then I wasn’t able to connect to anything outside of my LAN and my router shows internet access as disconnected. I’m have been using adguard in home assistant for a few months and been very happy with it. This might win a prize for most vague bug report but I’ll give it a try.
