Using Adguard Home - Self host a proxy as well?
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YankeesIT · 2023-11-27 02:02

I was curious about something.  I saw a video recently on youtube that
talked about using a proxy server as a sort of man in the middle to
mask your IP, get a little more privacy.  I already use adguard home
for my home network, would it help to also self host a proxy server or
does adguard home accomplish the same?  Thanks!

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Gaming09 · 2023-11-27 02:05

The network chuck one? Proxies are fine but if you're trying to
encrypt traffic only way is really to use a VPN but with anything you
need to understand the ISP at the end of the tunnel has your info
regardless

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LilHoushOnThePrairie · 2023-11-27 02:06

Adguard is not used for a proxy and is just a DNS server. You should
never expose your DNS server to the world which should be behind a
proxy server like nginx. This way you can allowlist certain IPs like
your home IP.

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Oujii · 2023-11-27 03:35

What are you trying to accomplish? Just hiding your IP? Are you
AdGuard for DNS blocking only or something else?

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YankeeLimaVictor · 2023-11-27 08:03

Adguardhome doesn't mask any of your traffic. (If you configure it
properly, it ill encrypt your DNS requests. But that's all). Need to
know what exactly you are trying to accomplish.

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HellDuke · 2023-11-27 09:53

I think you may have misunderstood what a proxy does. If you self host
a proxy it does nothing in terms of hiding your IP. The server will
see the exact same address as before. The way you would hide your IP
with a proxy is if it was hosted somewhere else other than your
network. Basically what will happen is

`PC → Proxy → Server` instead of `PC → Server`

Basically the server will see the public IP address of the proxy
server. So if the public IP of the proxy server is the same as your PC
(in the case of self hosting on the same network) what would be the
purpose? Generally a proxy on the same network is used for access
control (for example blocking certain websites by URL rather than IP
through a firewall).

I don't know the inner workings of AdGuard Home, but to me it's more
of a DNS than a proxy. Instead of acting on a connection it acts on a
DNS query and blcoks you from getting the address you want but if we
were to just go directly by IP address it probably would just go
through wheras a Proxy could catch that and stop it.

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YankeesIT · 2023-11-27 11:45

Yep that one. Using adguard home for ad blocking and local dns
caching.

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YankeesIT · 2023-11-27 11:46

Okay thank you for the info!