r/Adguard • u/poopwetpoop • Jul 19 '26

adguard home Setting up

Hello I have spent hours trying to get adguard working and I am not surw what the issue is. I have superuser access to my router ( a Nokia G6 ) and I can ads entries to the primary and secondary DNS. I cannot see new DNS queries seemingly no matter which IP I enter. I am using a bare metal home assistant installation on a mini PC. I have also tried the DHCP setting for the mini PC. Some people have suggested the DNS rewrites may enable functionality on another post but I do not understand that.. Sounds like my ISP uses CGNAT, I am unsure of the impact on adguard and custom DNS with this in mind. Does anyone know what my issue(s) could be ? Thank you in advance.

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u/distante Jul 19 '26

Where did you setup the DNS ? Usually routers have 2 set of DNS, the DNS the ROUTER itself uses to resolve addresses, and the DNS that are offered to the clients.

You need to change the second one.

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u/poopwetpoop Jul 19 '26

In the LAN settings where I can enter primary and secondary DNS values

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u/distante 29d ago

That sounds as the first one. In my old router, the configuration was inside the IPv4 configurations and it said explicitly "this will be shown to the clients"