Building a Clean DNS Stack at Home
AdGuard Home, WDS Bridging, and Escaping Router Roulette
Dec 1, 20254 min read36

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Notes on owning the systems you run. Self-hosting, DNS, networking, observability. The stuff that's calm when it works and loud when it doesn't. Receipts over heroics. Calm over clever.
AdGuard Home, WDS Bridging, and Escaping Router Roulette

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