Most of these settings can be changed via the web-based admin interface. However, we decided to list them all here just in case.

• Command-line arguments
• Configuring upstreams
  • Specifying upstreams for domains
  • Loading upstreams from file
  • Specifying upstreams for reverse DNS
    • Private addresses
    • Public addresses
    • Client lookups
• Configuration file
• Reset web password
• Profiling with pprof

Here is a list of all available command-line arguments.

$ ./AdGuardHome --help
Usage:

./AdGuardHome [options]

Options:
  -c, --config VALUE                 Path to the config file.
  -w, --work-dir VALUE               Path to the working directory.
  -h, --host VALUE                   Deprecated. Host address to bind HTTP server on. Use --web-addr. The short -h will work as --help in the future.
  -p, --port VALUE                   Deprecated. Port to serve HTTP pages on. Use --web-addr.
  --web-addr VALUE                   Address to serve the web UI on, in the host:port format.
  -s, --service VALUE                Service control action: status, install (as a service), uninstall (as a service), start, stop, restart, reload (configuration).
  -l, --logfile VALUE                Path to log file.  If empty, write to stdout; if "syslog", write to system log.
  --pidfile VALUE                    Path to a file where PID is stored.
  --check-config                     Check configuration and exit.
  --no-check-update                  Don't check for updates.
  --update                           Update the current binary and restart the service in case it's installed.
  --no-mem-optimization              Deprecated.  Disable memory optimization.
  --no-etc-hosts                     Deprecated: use clients.runtime_sources.hosts and dns.hostsfile_enabled instead.  Do not use the OS-provided hosts.
  --local-frontend                   Use local frontend directories.
  -v, --verbose                      Enable verbose output.
  --glinet                           Run in GL-Inet compatibility mode.
  --version                          Show the version and exit.  Show more detailed version description with -v.
  --help                             Print this help.

Please note, that the command-line arguments override settings from the configuration file.

./AdGuardHome -s reload command does the following:

• refresh the runtime clients data from the operating system's ARP tables;

• re-read SSL certificate file (if it has changed).

Command-line arguments passed to -s install command will be then used by the service. For instance, if you install the AdGuard Home service using sudo ./AdGuardHome -s install --no-check-update, it will disable update check functionality in the service as well.

AdGuard Home is basically a DNS proxy that sends your DNS queries to upstream servers. Multiple upstream servers for all or selected domain names can be specified in AdGuard Home settings.

Examples:

• 94.140.14.140, 2a10:50c0::1:ff: regular DNS (over UDP);

• 94.140.14.140:53, [2a10:50c0::1:ff]:53: regular DNS (over UDP, with port);

• udp://dns-unfiltered.adguard.com: regular DNS (over UDP, hostname);

• tcp://94.140.14.140, tcp://[2a10:50c0::1:ff]: regular DNS (over TCP);

• tcp://94.140.14.140:53, tcp://[2a10:50c0::1:ff]:53: regular DNS (over TCP, with port).

• tcp://dns-unfiltered.adguard.com: regular DNS (over TCP, hostname);

• tls://dns-unfiltered.adguard.com: encrypted DNS-over-TLS;

• https://dns-unfiltered.adguard.com/dns-query: encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS;

• h3://dns-unfiltered.adguard.com/dns-query: encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS with forced HTTP/3 and no fallback to HTTP/2 and below;

• quic://dns-unfiltered.adguard.com: encrypted DNS-over-QUIC;

• sdns://...: DNS Stamps for DNSCrypt or DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers;

• [/example.local/]94.140.14.140: DNS upstream for specific domains, see below;

• [/*.example.local/]94.140.14.140: DNS upstream for specific subdomains, see below;

You can specify upstreams that will be used for specific domains using the dnsmasq-like syntax (see the documentation for the option --server here). This feature is intended for private nameservers which deal with intranet domains.

The syntax is:

[/domain1/domain2/domainN/]upstreamString

Where upstreamString is one or, since v0.107.41, many upstreams separated by space (e.g. 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2).

If one or more domains are specified, that upstream (here upstreamString) is used only for those domains. Usually, it is used for private nameservers. For instance, if you have a nameserver on your network which deals with xxx.internal.local at address 192.168.0.1 then you can specify [/internal.local/]192.168.0.1, and AdGuard Home will send all *.internal.local queries to that nameserver. Everything else will be sent to the default upstreams, which should be specified as well.

An empty domain specification, // has the special meaning of “unqualified names only”, i.e. names without any dots in them, like myhost or router. Those will only be used for resolving requests for unqualified domain names, but not their subdomains. So, a configuration like this:

5.6.7.8:53
[//]4.3.2.1:53
[/com/]1.2.3.4:53

sends requests for com (and its subdomains) to 1.2.3.4:53, requests for other top-level domains to 4.3.2.1:53, and all other requests to 5.6.7.8:53.

More specific domains take precedence over less specific domains. So, a configuration like this:

[/host.com/]1.2.3.4
[/www.host.com/]2.3.4.5

sends queries for *.host.com to 1.2.3.4, except for queries for *.www.host.com, which are sent to 2.3.4.5.

The special server address # means “use the default servers”. So, a configuration like this:

6.7.8.9
[/host.com/]1.2.3.4
[/www.host.com/]#

sends queries for *.host.com to 1.2.3.4 except for queries for *.www.host.com, which are sent to 6.7.8.9, which is the default upstream.

Queries for the DS query type are following the assumption based on specification for records' presence given in RFC 4035, section 2.4:

A DS RRset SHOULD be present at a delegation point when the child zone is signed. […] All DS RRsets in a zone MUST be signed, and DS RRsets MUST NOT appear at a zone's apex.

For example, the DS query for domain.example.com will be sent to the upstream specified for example.com, com, or the default one, even if there is a more specific upstream like *.example.com. Note that for two-label DS requests, the upstream specified for unqualified names, or the more specific one will be used, if any.

Since v0.108.0-b.8 the wildcard * has a special meaning of "any subdomain", so --upstream=[/*.host.com/]1.2.3.4 will send queries for *.host.com to 1.2.3.4, but host.com will be forwarded to default upstreams.

• A configuration like:

  8.8.8.8:53
  [/local/]192.168.0.1:53
  

  sends queries for *.local domains to 192.168.0.1:53. Other queries are sent to 8.8.8.8:53.

• A configuration like:

  8.8.8.8:53
  [/host.com/]1.1.1.1:53
  [/maps.host.com/]#
  

  sends queries for *.host.com to 1.1.1.1:53 except for *.maps.host.com which are sent to 8.8.8.8:53 along with all other queries.

• A configuration like:

  8.8.8.8:53
  [/host.com/]1.1.1.1:53
  [/*.host.com/]2.2.2.2:53
  

  sends queries for *.host.com to 2.2.2.2:53 except for host.com queries those are sent to 1.1.1.1:53, but all other queries are sent to 8.8.8.8:53.

• A configuration like:

  8.8.8.8:53
  [/host.com/]1.1.1.1:53 2.2.2.2:53
  

  sends queries for *.host.com to 1.1.1.1:53 and 2.2.2.2:53, but all other queries are sent to 8.8.8.8:53.

Using specific upstreams for some domains is a common way to accelerate internet in China. For an example, see https://github.com/felixonmars/dnsmasq-china-list or any other of the many dnsmasq lists. These lists can be easily converted to a list for AdGuard Home:

Before:  server=/0-100.com/114.114.114.114
After:   [/0-100.com/]114.114.114.114

The problem with these lists is that they may be too large. In this case you may want to load them from a separate file instead of setting all upstreams in AdGuard Home settings. To do that, simply specify the path to a file with your list in the upstream_dns_file field of AdGuardHome.yaml.

BUG: The file, just like the input in the web interface, currently doesn't accept internationalized domain names (e.g. пример.рф or 例子.中国). As a workaround, convert them to Punycode (e.g. xn--e1afmkfd.xn--p1ai or xn--fsqu00a.xn--fiqs8s respectively). See issue 2915.

Using the domain-specific upstream notation, you can specify dedicated upstream DNS servers for reverse DNS (rDNS) requests. If you want all your PTR queries with ARPA domain to be redirected to 192.168.8.8:

1. Enter the following into the “Upstream DNS servers” field on the “Settings → DNS settings” page:

   [/in-addr.arpa/]192.168.8.8
   [/ip6.arpa/]192.168.8.8
   

2. Enter the following into the “Private reverse DNS servers” field on the same page below the previous field:

   192.168.8.8
   

   There is no need to use the domain-specific notation here, unless you want to redirect requests for different private ranges to different upstream servers.

NOTE: All upstreams for private ranges must go to the “Private reverse DNS servers” field and not the main “Upstream DNS servers” field. Entering something like [/192.in-addr.arpa/]192.168.8.8 into the main field will have no effect.

Read below for more details.

Since v0.106.0 all the addresses from private IP ranges are only resolved via appropriate local resolvers to avoid leaks of clients' information. By default, AdGuard Home tries to get the addresses of the default resolvers from the OS. You can set custom upstreams for it in the “Private reverse DNS servers” field in the “Upstream DNS servers” section or via the local_ptr_upstreams field in the configuration file. Since v0.108.0-b.5 the private IP ranges may be customized through the private_networks field. It's empty by default which makes AdGuard Home use the aforementioned default set of networks.

Since v0.107.0 you can disable the usage of private reverse DNS upstream servers via the “Use private reverse DNS resolvers” checkbox in the “Upstream DNS servers” section or via the use_private_ptr_resolvers field in the configuration file. If it is disabled, the unknown addresses from locally served networks won't be resolved at all, and clients performing these queries will receive NXDOMAIN responses.

Since v0.107.49 the SOA and NS requests are also checked for implying private rDNS and are resolved according to the same rules as PTR before.

If you want AdGuard Home to use another DNS server for a specific IP address range, you can do it using the same syntax as for general upstream servers. For example, if you add this to your “Upstream DNS servers” field:

[/200.in-addr.arpa/]192.168.7.7

then AdGuard Home will use the 192.168.7.7 DNS server for all rDNS requests to resolve clients' IP addresses from the 200.0.0.0/8 network.

Note that if you want to use that address for PTR queries for IP addresses in a locally served network range, for example 192.168.0.0/16, you should add this to the “Private reverse DNS servers” field:

[/168.192.in-addr.arpa/]192.168.7.7

AdGuard Home automatically gets the names of connected devices using reverse DNS lookup (rDNS). It sends PTR requests with the IP addresses of clients to appropriate DNS servers and uses the responses to enrich client information with human-friendly names.

Since v0.106.0 you can enable and disable this feature with “Enable clients' hostname resolution” setting in the “Upstream DNS servers” section or via the resolve_clients field in the configuration file.

Upon the first execution, a file named AdGuardHome.yaml will be created, with default values written in it. You can modify the file while your AdGuard Home service is not running. Otherwise, any changes to the file will be lost because the running program will overwrite them.

Settings are stored in YAML format, possible parameters that you can configure are listed below:

• bind_host (before v0.107.33): Web interface IP address to listen on.

• bind_port (before v0.107.33): Web interface IP port to listen on.

• http (since v0.107.36): Web interface configuration.

  • address: Web interface IP address with port to listen on.
  • session_ttl: Web session TTL is a time duration in a human-readable format. The web user will stay signed in for this amount of time.
  • pprof (since v0.107.33): Profiling HTTP handler configuration. See section Profiling with pprof.
    • enabled: Profiling handler status.
    • port: IP port to listen on.

• users: Web users info.

  • name: User name.
  • password: BCrypt-encrypted password.

• auth_attempts (after v0.106.0): Maximum number of failed login attempts a user can do before being blocked. The entire blocking logic is disabled if it equals to 0.

• block_auth_min (after v0.106.0): The duration of blocking period. The entire blocking logic is disabled if it equals to 0.

• http_proxy: Proxy URL for HTTP client, e.g. http://user:password@server:port/. Supports http, https and socks5 schemes.

• web_session_ttl (before v0.107.33): Web session TTL (in hours), a web user will stay signed in for this amount of time.

• debug_pprof (before v0.107.36): Enable pprof HTTP server listening on port 6060 for debugging. See section Profiling with pprof.

• dns — DNS configuration section.

  • General settings

    • bind_host (before v0.106.0) - IP address on which to serve DNS queries.

    • bind_hosts (after v0.106.0) - IP addresses on which to serve DNS queries. For each network interface there can only be one IP address of each IP version. Examples of valid configurations:

      # Different network interfaces.
      'dns':
          'bind_hosts':
          - '127.0.0.1'
          - '192.168.1.1'

      # Same network interface, different IP versions.
      'dns':
          'bind_hosts':
          - '127.0.0.1'
          - '::1'

      If you want your server to accept requests on all interfaces and using both IP versions, for example if you run a public server, put one item with the unspecified IP of any version:

      'dns':
          'bind_hosts':
          - '0.0.0.0'

    • port — DNS server port to listen on.

    • anonymize_client_ip - If true, anonymize clients' IP addresses in logs and stats

    • blocked_services (before v0.107.37): Blocked services settings section:

      • ids: List of blocked services.
      • schedule: Sets periods of inactivity for filtering blocked services. The schedule contains 7 days (Sunday to Saturday) and a time zone. Each day consists of start and end, which are the durations from the start of day. Duration is a string in human-readable format. start is greater or equal to 0s and less than 24h. end must be greater than start and less or equal to '24h'. start and end are expected to be rounded to minutes.

      Example of valid configuration:

      'blocked_services':
          'ids':
          - 'onlyfans'
          'schedule':
              'sun':
                  'start': '0s'
                  'end': '24h'
              'mon':
                  'start': '10m'
                  'end': '23h50m'
              'tue':
                  'start': '20m'
                  'end': '23h40m'
              # No schedule for Wednesday.
              'thu':
                  'start': '40m'
                  'end': '23h20m'
              'fri':
                  'start': '50m'
                  'end': '23h10m'
              'sat':
                  'start': '1h'
                  'end': '23h'
              'time_zone': 'America/New_York'

  • Protection settings (before v0.107.37)
    • protection_enabled — Whether any kind of filtering and protection should be performed. Since v0.107.0 it doesn't affect the rules with $dnsrewrite modifier and other rewrites, including those taken from the operating system's hosts file.
    • filtering_enabled — Whether filtering of DNS requests based on rule lists should be performed.
    • blocking_mode — Specifies how to block DNS requests. "nxdomain" (default): respond with NXDOMAIN status; "null_ip": respond with the unspecified IP address (0.0.0.0); or "custom_ip": respond with blocking_ipv4 or blocking_ipv6.
    • blocking_ipv4 - IP address to be returned for a blocked A request if blocking_mode is set to custom_ip
    • blocking_ipv6 - IP address to be returned for a blocked AAAA request if blocking_mode is set to custom_ip
    • blocked_response_ttl — For how many seconds the clients should cache a filtered response. Low values are useful on LAN if you change filters very often, high values are useful to increase performance and save traffic.
    • protection_disabled_until — Timestamp until when the protection is disabled.
    • parental_block_host — IP (or domain name) which is used to respond to DNS requests blocked by parental control
    • safebrowsing_block_host — IP (or domain name) which is used to respond to DNS requests blocked by safe-browsing
    • parental_enabled — Parental control-based DNS requests filtering.
    • safesearch_enabled (before v0.107.27) — Enforcing "Safe search" option for search engines, when possible. Deprecated, use enabled flag in safe_search section.
    • safe_search (since v0.107.27) — Safe search settings section:
      • enabled: Enforcing "Safe search" option for search engines, when possible.
      • bing: Enforcing "Safe search" option for bing domains.
      • duckduckgo: Enforcing "Safe search" option for duckduckgo domains.
      • google: Enforcing "Safe search" option for google domains.
      • pixabay: Enforcing "Safe search" option for pixabay domains.
      • yandex: Enforcing "Safe search" option for yandex domains.
      • youtube: Enforcing "Safe search" option for youtube domains.
    • safebrowsing_enabled — Filtering of DNS requests based on safebrowsing.
  • Query log settings
    • Before v0.107.24 query log settings were part of the dns object. Since v0.107.24 query log settings are part of querylog object.
  • Anti-DNS amplification features
    • ratelimit: DDoS protection, specifies how many queries per second AdGuard Home should handle. Anything above that is silently dropped. To disable set to 0, default is 20. Safe to disable if DNS server is not available from internet.
    • ratelimit_subnet_len_ipv4: Since v0.107.41 Subnet length for IPv4 addresses used for rate limiting requests. Default is 24.
    • ratelimit_subnet_len_ipv6: Since v0.107.41 Subnet length for IPv6 addresses used for rate limiting requests. Default is 56.
    • ratelimit_whitelist: If you want exclude some IP addresses from ratelimiting but keep ratelimiting on for others, put them here.
    • refuse_any: Another DDoS protection mechanism. Requests of type ANY are rarely needed, so refusing to serve them mitigates against attackers trying to use your DNS as a reflection. Safe to disable if DNS server is not available from internet.
  • Upstream DNS servers settings:

    • upstream_dns: List of upstream DNS servers.

    • upstream_dns_file: Path to a file with the list of upstream DNS servers. If it is configured, the value of upstream_dns is ignored.

    • bootstrap_dns: List of DNS servers used for initial hostname resolution in case an upstream server name is a hostname.

    • bootstrap_prefer_ipv6: If true, instructs the bootstrapper to prefer IPv6 addresses to IPv4 ones when resolving DoH, DoQ, and DoT hostnames.

    • fallback_dns (since v0.107.37): List of fallback DNS servers used when upstream DNS servers are not responding.

    • private_networks (since v0.108.0-b.5): List of networks used to check if an IP address belongs to a locally-served address registry. If empty, AdGuard Home will use the set defined by RFC 6303.

    • use_private_ptr_resolvers (since v0.107.0): If AdGuard Home should use private reverse DNS servers.

    • local_ptr_upstreams: List of upstream DNS servers to resolve PTR requests for addresses inside locally-served networks. If empty, AdGuard Home will automatically try to get local resolvers from the OS.

      Since v0.108.0-b.4 the domain-specific upstreams are validated for being a valid ARPA domain pointing to a locally-served network.

    • all_servers (before v0.107.44): Enables parallel queries to all configured upstream servers to speed up resolving. If enabled, the queries are sent to each server simultaneously and the first response is chosen. If disabled, the queries are sent to each upstream server one-by-one and then sorted by RTT. Note that more stable upstream servers are preferred by the algorithm.

    • fastest_addr (before v0.107.44): Use the Fastest Address algorithm. It finds an IP address with the lowest latency and returns this IP address in DNS response.

    • upstream_mode (since v0.107.44): The mode describes the logic through which the upstreams will be used. The possible values are:

      • load_balance: Queries are sent to each upstream server one-by-one. AdGuard Home uses its weighted random server selection algorithm to use the fastest server more often.
      • parallel: Parallel queries to all configured upstream servers to speed up resolving.
      • fastest_addr: It finds an IP address with the lowest latency and returns this IP address in DNS response.

    • fastest_timeout (since v0.107.0): The timeout used for dialing the addresses while picking the fastest. Values other than positive ones are replaced with the default one, 1s.

    • use_http3_upstreams (since v0.107.15): Enables DNS-over-HTTP/3 for DNS-over-HTTPS upstreams that support it.

    • use_dns64 ((since v0.107.23): Enables or disables the DNS64 functionality. See dns64_prefixes for more information.

    • dns64_prefixes (since v0.107.23): The list of DNS64 prefixes to use. The first specified prefix will be used to synthesize DNS64 answers. If empty, AdGuard Home will use the default (Well-Known) prefix 64:ff9b::/96. The prefixes are validated for being IPv6 subnets not longer than 96 bits. As per RFC 6147, PTR requests are routed to the local_ptr_upstreams if the requested address is within either one of the configured prefixes or the default Well-Known one.

  • ECS settings
    • edns_client_subnet — Add EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) option to upstream requests and log the values sent by the clients in the query log. Please note that ECS option will be added automatically for clients with public IP addresses only.
  • Access settings:

    • allowed_clients: The list of CIDRs, IP addresses or ClientIDs of allowed DNS clients. If this list has entries, AdGuard Home will accept requests only from these clients.

      See also the note in the Docker wiki page about using this property within a container.

    • disallowed_clients: The list of CIDRs, IP addresses, or ClientIDs of disallowed DNS clients. If this list has entries, AdGuard Home will drop requests from these clients. Note that this field is ignored if there are entries in allowed_clients.

      See also the note in the Docker wiki page about using this property within a container.

    • blocked_hosts: The list of domain names, wildcards or filtering rules to match requests that shouldn't be processed at all. These are ignored by statistics and query log as well.

      See also the note in the Docker wiki page about using this property within a container.

    • trusted_proxies (since v0.107.0) – The list of IP addresses and CIDR prefixes of trusted HTTP proxy servers. If a DNS-over-HTTPS request comes from one of these addresses or networks, AdGuard Home uses the provided proxy headers, such as X-Real-IP, to get the real IP address of the client. Requests from HTTP proxies outside of these networks are considered to be requests from the proxy itself. That is, the proxy headers are ignored.

      The full list of proxy headers, in the order AdGuard Home inspects them:

      1. CF-Connecting-IP
      2. True-Client-IP
      3. X-Real-IP
      4. X-Forwarded-For
  • DNS cache settings
    • cache_size — DNS cache size (in bytes).
    • cache_ttl_min — The minimum TTL override, in seconds. If the TTL of a response from upstream is below this value, the TTL is replaced with it. Must be less than or equal to cache_ttl_max.
    • cache_ttl_max — The maximum TTL override, in seconds. If the TTL of a response from upstream is above this value, the TTL is replaced with it. Must be greater than or equal to cache_ttl_min.
    • cache_optimistic (since v0.107.0) — Make AdGuard Home respond from the cache even when the entries are expired and also try to refresh them. Before v0.108.0-b.5 the TTL for such responses is 60 seconds and since v0.108.0-b.5 it's 10 seconds.
  • Other settings

    • bogus_nxdomain: Respond with NXDOMAIN instead of any response having IP addresses matching the ones from this list. Since v0.108.0 it also supports CIDRs.

    • enable_dnssec: Set DNSSEC flag in the outgoing DNS requests and check the result.

    • aaaa_disabled: Respond with an empty answer to all AAAA requests. Since v0.107.37 it also removes IPv6 hints from the answers to HTTPS queries.

    • safebrowsing_cache_size (before v0.107.37): Safe Browsing cache size, in bytes.

    • safesearch_cache_size (before v0.107.37): Safe Search cache size, in bytes.

    • parental_cache_size (before v0.107.37): Parental Control cache size, in bytes.

    • cache_time: Safe Browsing, Safe Search, and Parental Control cache TTL, in seconds.

    • max_goroutines: Maximum number of parallel goroutines for processing incoming requests.

    • handle_ddr: Handle Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR) requests.

    • ipset: List of domain-ipset_name associations for adding IP addresses of the specified domain names to an ipset list. Syntax:

      DOMAIN[,DOMAIN,…]/IPSET_NAME[,IPSET_NAME,…]
      

      IPv4 addresses are added to an ipset list with ipv4 family; IPv6 addresses, to an ipv6 ipset list. ipset list must exist.

      This setting is supported on Linux OSs only. This feature is similar to --ipset in dnsmasq.

    • ipset_file (since v0.107.13): Same as ipset, but the rules are read from a file. If this property is set, property ipset is ignored. Comments (lines starting with #) are supported since v0.107.48.

    • upstream_timeout (since v0.107.0): The timeout for querying upstream servers. Zero value will be rewritten with default one which is 10s.

    • resolve_clients (since v0.106.0): Enable/disable resolving clients' addresses by sending PTR requests.

    • serve_http3 (since v0.107.15): Enables DNS-over-HTTP/3 serving for DNS-over-HTTPS clients as well as for the web UI.

    • theme (since v0.107.22): The theme of UI. The possible values are: auto, dark, light.

    • serve_plain_dns (since v0.107.42): Enables plain DNS serving.

      NOTE: serve_plain_dns cannot currently be set to false unless one or more encrypted protocols (DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, etc.) is enabled.

    • hostsfile_enabled (since v0.107.45): Allows information from the system hosts file to be used to resolve queries.

• filtering (since v0.107.37): Filtering settings section:

  • protection_enabled: Whether any kind of filtering and protection should be performed. Note that it doesn't affect the rules with $dnsrewrite modifier and other rewrites, including those taken from the operating system hosts file.

  • filtering_enabled: Whether filtering of DNS requests based on rule lists should be performed.

  • blocking_mode: Specifies how to block DNS requests. "nxdomain" (default): respond with NXDOMAIN status; "null_ip": respond with the unspecified IP address (0.0.0.0); or "custom_ip": respond with blocking_ipv4 or blocking_ipv6.

  • blocking_ipv4: IP address to be returned for a blocked A request if blocking_mode is set to custom_ip.

  • blocking_ipv6: IP address to be returned for a blocked AAAA request if blocking_mode is set to custom_ip.

  • blocked_response_ttl: For how many seconds the clients should cache a filtered response. Low values are useful on LAN if you change filters very often, high values are useful to increase performance and save traffic.

  • protection_disabled_until: Timestamp until when the protection is disabled.

  • parental_block_host: IP (or domain name) which is used to respond to DNS requests blocked by parental control.

  • safebrowsing_block_host: IP (or domain name) which is used to respond to DNS requests blocked by safe-browsing.

  • parental_enabled: Parental control-based DNS requests filtering.

  • safe_search: Safe search settings section:

    • enabled: Enforcing "Safe search" option for search engines, when possible.
    • bing: Enforcing "Safe search" option for bing domains.
    • duckduckgo: Enforcing "Safe search" option for duckduckgo domains.
    • google: Enforcing "Safe search" option for google domains.
    • pixabay: Enforcing "Safe search" option for pixabay domains.
    • yandex: Enforcing "Safe search" option for yandex domains.
    • youtube: Enforcing "Safe search" option for youtube domains.

  • safebrowsing_enabled: Filtering of DNS requests based on safebrowsing.

  • safebrowsing_cache_size: Safe Browsing cache size, in bytes.

  • safesearch_cache_size: Safe Search cache size, in bytes.

  • parental_cache_size: Parental Control cache size, in bytes.

  • rewrites: List of legacy DNS rewrites, where domain is the domain or wildcard you want to be rewritten and answer is IP address, CNAME record, A or AAAA special values. Special value A keeps A records from the upstream and AAAA keeps AAAA values from the upstream.

    'rewrites':
      - 'domain': example.com
        'answer': 127.0.0.1
      - 'domain': '*.example.com'
        'answer': A

  • cache_time: Time interval in minutes for keeping cache records.

  • filters_update_interval: Time interval in hours for updating filters.

  • blocked_services: Blocked services settings section:

    • ids: List of blocked services.
    • schedule: Sets periods of inactivity for filtering blocked services. The schedule contains 7 days (Sunday to Saturday) and a time zone. Each day consists of start and end, which are the durations from the start of day. Duration is a string in human-readable format. start is greater or equal to 0s and less than 24h. end must be greater than start and less or equal to '24h'. start and end are expected to be rounded to minutes.

  Example of valid configuration:

  'blocked_services':
      'ids':
      - 'onlyfans'
      'schedule':
          'sun':
              'start': '0s'
              'end': '24h'
          'mon':
              'start': '10m'
              'end': '23h50m'
          'tue':
              'start': '20m'
              'end': '23h40m'
          # No schedule for Wednesday.
          'thu':
              'start': '40m'
              'end': '23h20m'
          'fri':
              'start': '50m'
              'end': '23h10m'
          'sat':
              'start': '1h'
              'end': '23h'
          'time_zone': 'America/New_York'

• querylog (since v0.107.24) — Query log settings section:

  • enabled: Query log status.

  • file_enabled: Write query logs to a file.

  • interval (since v0.107.27): Time interval for query log files rotation. It's a string with human-readable duration between an hour (1h) and a year (8760h).

  • size_memory: Number of entries kept in memory before they are flushed to disk.

  • ignored: List of host names, which should not be written to log.

    Since v0.107.37, AdBlock rule syntax is supported.

  • dir_path (since v0.107.45): Custom directory for storing query log files.

• statistics (since v0.107.24) — Statistics settings section:

  • enabled: Statistics status.

  • interval: Time interval for statistics. Before v0.107.27, it's a number with duration in days. Since v0.107.27, it's a string with human-readable duration between an hour (1h) and a year (8760h).

  • ignored: List of host names, which should not be counted.

    Since v0.107.37, AdBlock rule syntax is supported.

  • dir_path (since v0.107.45): Custom directory for storing statistics.

• filters — List of filters, each filter has the following values:

  • enabled — Current filter's status (enabled/disabled).
  • url — URL pointing to the filter contents (filtering rules).
  • name — Name of the filter. If it's an adguard syntax filter it will get updated automatically, otherwise it stays unchanged.
  • last_updated — Time when the filter was last updated from server.
  • ID - filter ID (must be unique).

• dhcp - Built-in DHCP server configuration. See also the DHCP article.

  • enabled - DHCP server status.

  • interface_name - network interface name (eth0, en0, and so on).

  • dhcpv4 - DHCPv4 settings.

    • gateway_ip - gateway IP address.
    • subnet_mask - subnet mask.
    • range_start, range_end - the start and the end of the leased IP address range.
    • lease_duration - lease duration in seconds. If 0, use the default duration of 24 hours.
    • options - custom DHCP options. See the DHCP article section on these options for more information.

  • dhcpv6 - DHCPv6 settings.

    • range_start - the first IP address to be assigned to a client.
    • lease_duration - same as in v4 above.
    • ra_slaac_only and ra_allow_slaac - send RA packets either forcing the clients to use SLAAC or allowing them to choose. See the DHCP article section on these options for more information.

  • local_domain_name — The domain name that AdGuard Home's DHCP server uses for hostnames of its clients. The default value, which is also set when this value is empty, is lan. So, if you have a machine called myhost in your network, and AdGuard Home is this network's DHCP server, the hostname of that machine is myhost.lan.

    DNS queries of type A for such hosts are only allowed from locally served networks, such as 10.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, and so on. Other clients receive an empty NXDOMAIN response.

    Before v0.108.0 this setting was a part of the dns object.

• tls: HTTPS/DoH/DoQ/DoT settings.

  • enabled: Encryption (DoT/DoH+HTTPS/DoQ) status.

  • server_name: The hostname of your server. If set, it is used to detect ClientIDs (using the ServerName field of ClientHello messages), respond to Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR) queries, and perform additional connection validations. If not set, these features are disabled.

    Must match one of the DNS Names in the certificate.

  • force_https: If true, force HTTP-to-HTTPS redirect.

    Since v0.107.37, this setting also sets the Strict-Transport-Security header.

  • port_https: The HTTPS port. Used for both web UI and DNS-over-HTTPS. If 0, HTTPS is disabled.

  • port_dns_over_tls: The DNS-over-TLS port. If 0, DNS-over-TLS is disabled.

  • port_dns_over_quic: The DNS-over-QUIC port. If 0, DNS-over-QUIC is disabled. Before v0.108.0-b.5 the default value was 754, since v0.108.0-b.5 it's 853.

  • port_dnscrypt: The DNSCrypt port. If 0, DNSCrypt is disabled. See the “DNSCrypt” page for more information and examples.

  • dnscrypt_config_file: The path to the DNSCrypt configuration file. Must be set if port_dnscrypt is not 0. See the dnscrypt utility documentation for examples of configuration generation.

  • allow_unencrypted_doh: If true, allow DoH queries via unencrypted HTTP, for example to use with reverse proxies.

  • certificate_chain: The PEM-encoded certificates chain.

  • strict_sni_check: If true, reject connections if the client uses server name (in SNI) that doesn't match the one in the certificate.

  • private_key: The PEM-encoded private key.

  • icmp_timeout_msec: Time to wait for an ICMP reply to detect an IP conflict, in milliseconds. If 0, the feature is disabled.

  • override_tls_ciphers: If set, this array of strings allows overriding the default set of TLS cipher suites to use. The strings are the names of cipher suites.

• user_rules — User-specified filtering rules.

• os (since v0.107.0) — Operating system related settings.

  • group — The name of the user group to switch to after the startup.
  • user — The name of the user to switch to after the startup.
  • rlimit_nofile — Limit on the maximum number of open files for the server process (on unixlike OSs). Set to 0 to use the system's default value.

• Clients settings

  • clients: Persistent and runtime clients settings.
    • persistent: An array of explicitly configured clients. Before v0.108.0 the contents of this field took up the whole clients section. Each client has the following properties:
      • safe_search: Safe search settings section.
      • blocked_services: Blocked services settings section.
      • name: Client's name.
      • ids: List of client's identifiers.
      • tags: List of client's tags.
      • upstreams: Upstreams configuration.
      • uid: Since v0.107.44 client's unique identifier.
      • upstreams_cache_size: Since v0.107.42 client's cache size.
      • upstreams_cache_enabled: Since v0.107.42 if client's cache is enabled.
      • use_global_settings: Shows if the client-specific settings are used to override the global settings.
      • filtering_enabled: Indicates whether or not to use filter lists.
      • parental_enabled: Indicates whether or not to use parental protection.
      • safebrowsing_enabled: Indicates whether or not to use safe browsing protection.
      • use_global_blocked_services: Shows if the client-specific settings are used to override the global Blocked Services settings.
      • ignore_querylog: Indicates whether or not to exclude client's activity from the query log.
      • ignore_statistics: Indicates whether or not to exclude client's activity from the statistics.
    • runtime_sources — Since v0.108.0 this controls the certain runtime clients sources.
      • whois — Request WHOIS information for clients with public IP addresses.
      • arp — Consider the operating system's ARP table.
      • rdns — Perform rDNS lookups for client's address.
      • dhcp — Check AdGuard Home's DHCP leases for client's address.
      • hosts — Follow the operating system's hosts files.

• Log settings

  • log (since v0.107.34): Log settings.
    • file (since v0.107.34): Path to the log file. If empty, writes to stdout, if syslog writes system log (or eventlog on Windows).
    • compress (since v0.107.34): If true, enabled GZIP compression of the log files.
    • local_time (since v0.107.34): If true, the time used for formatting the timestamps in is the computer's local time.
    • max_backups (since v0.107.34): Maximum number of old log files to retain. 0 means retain all old log files. Note that max_age may still cause them to be deleted.
    • max_size (since v0.107.34): Maximum size of the log file before it gets rotated, in megabytes.
    • max_age (since v0.107.34): MaxAge is the maximum number of days to retain old log files.
    • verbose (since v0.107.34): If true, enables verbose debug output.
  • log_file (before v0.107.34): See log.file above.
  • log_compress (before v0.107.34): See log.compress above.
  • log_localtime (before v0.107.34): See log.local_time above.
  • log_max_backups (before v0.107.34): See log.max_backups above.
  • log_max_size (before v0.107.34): See log.max_size above.
  • log_max_age (before v0.107.34): See log.max_age above.
  • verbose (before v0.107.34): See log.verbose above.

Removing an entry from settings file will reset it to the default value. Deleting the file will reset all settings to the default values.

Please follow these steps to create a new password for your user account:

1. Install htpasswd, which is a part of Apache2 Web Server:

   • Ubuntu:

     sudo apt-get install apache2

   • Fedora:

     sudo dnf install httpd-tools

   • Windows:

     Choose a download from https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/platform/windows.html#down, extract the downloaded folder, open a terminal, navigate to its bin directory with the chdir command, and run .\Htpasswd. Note the capital “H” in the Windows version.

   Other versions of htpasswd could be used, but only if they support bcrypt hash encryption, which rules out e.g. most web-hosted htpasswd generators.

2. Use the htpasswd utility to generate a new hash:

   • Ubuntu/Fedora:

     htpasswd -B -C 10 -n -b <USERNAME> <PASSWORD>

   • Windows:

     .\Htpasswd -B -C 10 -n -b <USERNAME> <PASSWORD>

   It will print <USERNAME>:<HASH> to the terminal.

3. Open AdGuardHome.yaml in a text editor with sudo rights.

   In the users: section, find your username and insert the <HASH> value for the password setting:

   users:
     - name: ...
       password: <HASH>

4. Save the file and restart AdGuard Home. Now you should be able to log in to the web interface using your new password.

To enable pprof, set http.pprof.enabled and http.pprof.port in the yaml configuration file and then restart AdGuard Home. Now you can get profiling information with your browser, for example http://localhost:[PORT]/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=2 will show the call trace of each running goroutine.

This URL lets you see information about the heap usage of the AdGuard Home process: http://localhost:[PORT]/debug/pprof/heap?debug=1.

Or, with go tool pprof:

go tool pprof -top http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/heap

For a list of supported profiles go to http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/.

Alternatively, you may want to simply download the file and analyze it later:

wget http://localhost:6060/debug/pprof/heap
go tool --http=':8080' heap