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Adguard Home and DNS-over-HTTPS

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Hi, I'm new to the world of encryption and ad-blocking and I have a very basic doubt.

Adguard Home can work as a DNS-over-HTTPS (or DNS-over-TLS) server, which means I can use any DNS provider I want (even unencrypted ones), and if I configure things correctly (domain name and certificates) then I should have native/internal support for encrypted DNS.

What is the difference between the set-up I described above, and just simply using Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS as upstream DNS ( https://imgur.com/msrYyYB)?

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simply using Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS as upstream DNS

You mean using it as an upstream provider inside AdGuardHome?

Well, in that case, your requests will go to Cloudflare, unless some filter used by AdGuardHome is blocking that request.

You can use multiple different upstream providers, by the way.

edit: typo

Thanks for the reply! What I mean is

  1. using AdGuardHome and set-up the upstream provider as Cloudflare (https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query --> DNS-over-HTTPS to be put under Settings --> DNS settings)

vs.

2) use AdGuardHome as "the" DNS-over-HTTPS server (Settings --> Encryption settings)

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He or she almost mentioned the domain and the certifications. I'm pretty sure that only applies to the admin page and not to the doh or dot upstreams being encrypted. Could be wrong on this.

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