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# Configuring AdGuard Home Clients
# AdGuard Home - Configuring Clients
AdGuard Home allows flexible configuration for the devices that are connected to it.
On a basic level, you may just want to be able to distinguish them and see friendly
names instead of naked IP addresses. Additionally, AdGuard Home allows you applying
different rules depending on the client.
AdGuard Home allows flexible configuration for devices that are connected to it.
On a basic level, you may just want to be able to distinguish them and see
friendly names instead of naked IP addresses. Additionally, AdGuard Home allows
you applying different rules depending on the client.
* [Friendly names](#friendlynames)
* [Creating a new client](#newclient)
* [Identifying clients](#idclient)
* [Settings](#clientsettings)
* [Configuring filtering per-client](#perclientblocking)
* [Friendly Names](#friendlynames)
* [Persistent Clients](#newclient)
* [Identifying clients](#idclient)
* [Settings](#clientsettings)
* [Per-Client Blocking](#perclientblocking)
## <a id="friendlynames" href="#friendlynames">Friendly names</a>
AdGuard Home tries to automatically find out some basic information about
the device that's connecting to it.
## <a href="#friendlynames"id="friendlynames" name="friendlynames">Friendly Names</a>
AdGuard Home tries to automatically collect some basic information about the
device that's connecting to it.
Here is what it tries to do in order to figure out the client's hostname:
1. Inspects the hosts file and uses hostnames found there to identify clients.
2. Makes a reverse DNS lookup.
3. Inspects the system ARP table.
4. For public IP addresses it also makes a [whois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS) query in order to find out the client's location and the company the IP belongs to.
1. Inspects the hosts files (for example, `/etc/hosts` on Unix systems) and
uses hostnames found there to identify clients.
If the only thing you need is to see friendly names in AdGuard Home stats,
then editing the hosts file may be the easiest way to achieve this.
1. Makes reverse DNS lookups.
1. Inspects the system ARP table.
1. For public IP addresses it also makes [WHOIS][whois] queries in order to
find out the client's location and the company the IP belongs to.
If the only thing you need is to see friendly names in AdGuard Home stats then
editing the hosts file may be the easiest way to achieve this. Please note that
you may need to restart AdGuard Home to apply the changes immediately.
![](images/top-clients-names.png)
Note, that restarting AdGuard Home may be needed if you want to see the
change immediately.
[whois]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS
## <a id="newclient" href="#newclient">Creating a new client</a>
If you want more than just to see the client names, you may want to
configure each client manually. If that's the case, head to "Clients settings"
and click "Add client" there.
## <a href="#newclient" id="newclient" name="newclient">Persistent Clients</a>
If you want more than just to see the client names, you may want to configure
each client manually. If that's the case, head to the “Settings → Clients
settings” page and click the "Add client" button there.
![](images/new-client.png)
### <a id="idclient" href="#idclient">Identifying clients</a>
### <a href="#idclient" id="idclient" name="idclient">Identifying clients</a>
First of all, you need to decide how you would like to identify the client.
There are several options to do this.
1. **IP address**. For instance, `192.168.0.1`. This is the easiest way to do
1. **IP address.** For instance, `192.168.0.1`. This is the easiest way to do
this, but it may be not good enough if the IP address changes too often.
2. **CIDR range**. For instance, `192.168.0.1/24`. Allows attributing a whole
1. **CIDR range.** For instance, `192.168.0.1/24`. Allows attributing a whole
range of IP addresses (in the example it is `192.168.0.*`) to the same
client.
3. **MAC address**. Using MAC as a client identifier is only possible when
AdGuard Home works as a [DHCP server](DHCP).
4. **Client ID** *(added in v0.105)*. This method is supposed to be used for
encrypted DNS protocols (DoH, DoT or DoQ). Once this identifier is used,
you can use a special domain name while configuring your client. Here's an
example:
* AdGuard Home has the domain name `example.org`.
* In AdGuard Home you add a client with the client ID `my-client`.
* On the client device you can now configure:
1. **MAC address.** Using MAC as a client identifier is **only** possible when
AdGuard Home works as the network's [DHCP server](DHCP).
* `DNS-over-HTTPS`: `https://example.org/dns-query/my-client`
* `DNS-over-TLS`: `tls://my-client.example.org` (requires a [Wildcard certificate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate))
* `DNS-over-QUIC`: `quic://my-client.example.org` (requires a [Wildcard certificate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate))
1. **ClientIDs.** Special identifiers that can be used with some encrypted DNS
protocols. [See below](#clientid).
Note that the certificate for TLS and QUIC client IDs must be valid **both**
for `*.example.org` **and** `example.org`.
#### <a href="#clientid" id="clientid" name="clientid">ClientID</a>
ClientIDs are identifiers that can be used with the following DNS protocols:
DNS-over-HTTPS, DNS-over-TLS, and DNS-over-QUIC. To use this identifier,
clients should perform queries using a special domain name. For example:
* AdGuard Home has the domain name `example.org`.
* In AdGuard Home you add a persistent client with the ClientID `my-client`.
* On the client device you can now configure:
* **DNS-over-HTTPS:** `https://example.org/dns-query/my-client`;
* **DNS-over-TLS:** `tls://my-client.example.org` (requires a [wildcard
certificate][wild]);
* **DNS-over-QUIC:** `quic://my-client.example.org` (requires a [wildcard
certificate][wild]).
Note that the TLS certificate must be valid **both** for `*.example.org` **and**
`example.org`.
[wild]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_certificate
### <a id="clientsettings" href="#clientsettings">Settings</a>
### <a href="#clientsettings" id="clientsettings" name="clientsettings">Settings</a>
Each client can be configured individually. You may choose what to block, what
settings should be used, or you could even configure a completely different set
Each client can be configured individually. You may choose what to block, what
settings should be used, or you could even configure a completely different set
of upstream DNS servers to be used for this client.
![](images/client-settings.png)
## <a id="perclientblocking" href="#perclientblocking">Configuring blocking per-client</a>
## <a href="#perclientblocking" id="perclientblocking" name="perclientblocking">Per-Client Blocking</a>
There are two ways of how you can configure blocking on the per-client basis.
Both of them are based on using AdGuard blocklist rules syntax for the rules
Both of them are based on using AdGuard blocklist rules syntax for the rules
you're adding to "Custom filtering rules".
**`$client` rules**
The first one is using `$client` modifier. This way you can limit the rule
to a client (or clients).
### `client` rules
The first one is using the `client` modifier. This way you can limit the rule
to a particular client or clients.
Examples:
* `@@||*^$client=127.0.0.1` — unblock everything for localhost
* `||example.org^$client='Frank\'s laptop'` — block `example.org` for the
client named `Frank's laptop` only. Note that quote (`'`) in the name must be escaped.
* `||example.org^$client=192.168.0.0/24` -- block `example.org` for all clients
with IP addresses in the range `192.168.0.0-192.168.0.255`
* `@@||*^$client=127.0.0.1`: Unblock everything for localhost.
You can find more examples in [the article](Hosts-Blocklists#client) about
blocking rules syntax.
* `||example.org^$client='Frank\'s laptop'`: Block `example.org` for the
client named `Frank's laptop` only. Note that quote (`'`) in the name must
be escaped.
**`$ctag` rules**
* `||example.org^$client=192.168.0.0/24`: Block `example.org` for all clients
with the IP addresses in the range `192.168.0.0-192.168.0.255`.
The second way is to use another modifier called `$ctag`. When you create
a new client, special "tags" can be assigned to it. These tags can then
be used in the filtering rules:
You can find more `client` examples in the [article](Hosts-Blocklists#client)
about the filtering rules syntax.
* `||example.org^$ctag=device_pc|device_phone` - block `example.org` for
clients tagged as `device_pc` or `device_phone`
* `||example.org^$ctag=~device_phone` - block `example.org` for all clients
except those tagged as `device_phone`
### `ctag` rules
The second way is to use another modifier called `ctag`. When you create a new
client, tags can be assigned to it. These tags can then be used in the
filtering rules.
Examples:
* `||example.org^$ctag=device_pc|device_phone`: Block `example.org` for
clients tagged as `device_pc` or `device_phone`.
* `||example.org^$ctag=~device_phone`: Block `example.org` for all clients
except those tagged as `device_phone`.
You can find more `ctag` examples as well as the full list of tags in the
[article](Hosts-Blocklists#ctag) about the filtering rules syntax.