This is something you should do anyway, so if you haven’t done it yet, do it now, even if you have no interest in the rest of this guide. Configuring AdGuard Home for host networkingīefore getting started with the container settings, you have to make sure that you have assigned your Unraid system a static IP address. Because the AdGuard Home Docker container doesn’t have its own IP address in Host Networking mode, all -p, -publish, -P, and -publish-all options are ignored.

If you select host networking and attempt to start the container, you will be greeted by an error message.īecause we want to use Host Networking, there is no possibility of mapping the ports, as there is when using the Bridged Network. That port, however, is already occupied by the Unraid interface. By default, AdGuard Home wants to use port 80 for that interface. AdGuard Home, just like Unraid, is controlled using a web interface. Using Host Networking isn’t as simple as enabling it in the containers settings. Why Host Networking fails in the AdGuard Home Docker container (at first) Home Assistant serves as my central dashboard for all my self-hosted software, so obviously AdGuard Home had to integrate with it. The second issue I was having is that I couldn’t integrate AdGuard Home with Home Assistant, which is also hosted on my Unraid server.

That is why you have to edit the DNS server on your router for AdGuard Home to start blocking ads and trackers network-wide. The DHCP server will pass on important information, such as your DNS servers, to your network devices. The DHCP server’s job is to dynamically assign an IP address and other network configuration parameters to each device on the network and is usually integrated into modems and routers. Unfortunately, you can only configure a DHCP server if you are using host networking.

The easiest way of being able to see individual devices in the AdGuard Home dashboard is by not only using it to block ads and trackers, but also using it as a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. Without Host Networking Mode you can’t see individual clients

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