Using MT3000 as Adguard Home server when at home

Technical Support for Routers
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Hi,

Can I assign the MT3000 a dhcp address and use it as a backup adguard home dns server when at home?

And as a travel router when away from the house?

I have 2 adguard home dns servers in docker on my NASbut if my nas goes down, they both go down, so I am looking for another device to run adguard home on when at home.

Thoughts?

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This setup does not make sense to me.

I would let run AGH on a device that does not go down - speaking, a router, not a NAS. In that case, I would set it as my default DNS and make sure that it will get distributed by DHCP to my clients.

When I am with my travel router exact the same thing will happen, so AGH will work fine since it runs on my travel router itself.

Running 2 AGH instances on the same NAS does not make any sense - what’s the goal here?

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Hi and thanks the the reply.

I completely agree with you re running 2 instances on the same NAS, not ideal. Which is why I want another instance on separate hardware. DNS 1 and 2 are the macvlan addresses of teh 2 ADH instances running on the NAS currently.

I tried installing AdGuard Home on my old ER5POE, but the HW was not up to the job. I don’t want to buy a Nuc or Pi just for this purpose and can see some distinct benefits of a travel router. I would set this instance of ADH as DNS3 on my DHCP scope.

My Internet is connected through a UDM which I don’t want to install ADH on as it will be wiped when upgraded.

Happy to hear how else to do this.

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Have you tried this simple option for you.

Just add dns IP in your dhcp. Or add upstream in your AdGuard Home.

For example my simple plan.

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My router is home.
2 phones for outside network (4G/5G)
Travel router is holiday things with small GL router.
Everything list filter in one DNS server.

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Hi,

So is this just using adguard DNS rather than running adguard home?

I like the ability to be quite granular with the block and allows, as well as using DNS rewrites and am not sure the DNS only service can do this.

I do use quad9 and adguard DNS as upstream.

I suppose I am looking to convince myself to buy a travel router and one way to persuade myself is if I can use it as an adguard home server at home, using my ud se for internet and DHCP.

I then have the benefit of being able to take it with me when I travel or am away from home.

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It can but I guess you have to go with the paid version then.

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Thanks for the responses and ideas, I will give it some more thought and report back If I take the plunge.