pfSense router and Adguard Home ( DNS based ad block server) mini box

Antibiotic

Could you please suggest more reliable and convenient way to connect of this two for avoid lagging or latency increasing. How should better? or will work well in both situations. Adguard Home server will act as local DNS server for whole home network.

pfSense (have 4th LAN and 1 WAN) router + switch + Adguard Home box ( DNS based ad block server) on this switch and other home network on this switch.
pfSense (have 4th LAN and 1 WAN) router + Adguard Home box ( DNS based ad block server) in pfSense addtional LAN + switch to pfSense other LAN and other home network on this switch.

stephenw10

Unlikely to make any measurable difference.

But setup #2 avoids any possibility of an asymmetric route if DNS requests are redirected to the adguard device.

Steve

Antibiotic

@stephenw10 So, setup # 2 More preferable, is it correct? Just I'm in doubt because like understand AdguardHome in pfSense LAN will have different subnet from switch or for DNS server settings this is can be ignoring?

stephenw10

Yes, I would choose #2. You can have DNS servers in a different subnet, that's no problem.

Antibiotic

@stephenw10 Ok, thanks for assistance))))

Antibiotic

@stephenw10 But with this connections type for traffic shaping wizard should choose multi wan wizard or dedicated wizard than?Have intel i226-v cards on all ethernets.

stephenw10

You don't need shaping to/from the DNS server itself so you would only select the LAN to add shaper queues to if you need them.

Antibiotic

@stephenw10 Well noted

Antibiotic

@stephenw10 In case of use pfBlockerNG on pfSense and AduardHome on separate box like a DNS server could be any conflicts or duplicate functions? Any profit or negative?

stephenw10

pfBlocker can load and block IP lists and also url/domian lists via DNS-BL. If you are filtering DNS with an external box I would not also use DNS-BL in pfBlocker. But DNS filtering does not block IP list in the firewall so that could still be done using pfBlocker.
Personally I would just use pfBlocker for both.

provels

@Antibiotic
I've used pfBlocker for years but I recently brought up Pi-Hole running on a tiny VM (1 proc, 1 GB, on my Windows server) for fun. The Pi forwards only to PFSense's Resolver, still running pfBlocker, and pfSense's DHCP issues the Pi as the only DNS to the local net. Works great! And I run all these lists on the Pi using only 30% of the memory. Plus, I can copy/paste this entire list into the interface at once, update, and done. Also, rate limits chatty hosts like my TV (like 1000+ hits/minute!). And the interface is a real treat and very intuitive. pfB can do much more (IP, country blocks) but the Pi interface is so darn pretty!

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt
https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt
https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Crypto.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts
https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt
https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist_extended.txt
https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Malware.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Phishing.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Spam404/lists/master/main-blacklist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AssoEchap/stalkerware-indicators/master/generated/hosts
https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/
https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerLists/hosts_browser

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PolishFiltersTeam/KADhosts/master/KADhosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Spam/hosts
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist/master/spammers.txt
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VeleSila/yhosts/master/hosts
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/neohostsbasic.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RooneyMcNibNug/pihole-stuff/master/SNAFU.txt
https://paulgb.github.io/BarbBlock/blacklists/hosts-file.txt

https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Admiral.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/adservers.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/UncheckyAds/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigdargon/hostsVN/master/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jdlingyu/ad-wars/master/hosts

https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Ads.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.2o7Net/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt
https://hostfiles.frogeye.fr/firstparty-trackers-hosts.txt
https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/lists/ads-and-tracking-extended.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/android-tracking.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/SmartTV.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Perflyst/PiHoleBlocklist/master/AmazonFireTV.txt
https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-blocklist.txt

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/Alternate%20versions%20Anti-Malware%20List/AntiMalwareHosts.txt
https://osint.digitalside.it/Threat-Intel/lists/latestdomains.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Crypto.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FadeMind/hosts.extras/master/add.Risk/hosts
https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt
https://phishing.army/download/phishing_army_blocklist_extended.txt
https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Malware.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/RPiList-Phishing.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Spam404/lists/master/main-blacklist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AssoEchap/stalkerware-indicators/master/generated/hosts
https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/downloads/hostfile/
https://malware-filter.gitlab.io/malware-filter/phishing-filter-hosts.txt
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Malware.txt

https://zerodot1.gitlab.io/CoinBlockerLists/hosts_browser

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chadmayfield/my-pihole-blocklists/master/lists/pi_blocklist_porn_top1m.list
https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Prigent-Adult.txt

Got the list suggestions from here. I use the first 3.

Antibiotic

Ok, thanks to all for answering