Site blocked by AdGuard Home?

AdGuard Home is a DNS server you run yourself, usually for your whole home network. When it blocks a domain, every device on the network is affected, and browsers just report that the site couldn’t be found.

Updated November 2026. Menus move around between versions: if a label is a little different, look for the closest match.

Find what blocked it

1. Open the AdGuard Home web interface and go to the Query Log.
2. Reload the broken page, then filter to blocked queries.
3. Each blocked entry shows the rule that matched and the list it came from.
4. To check one domain without the log, use Check the filtering on the Filters → Custom filtering rules page.

Allow it

• Quickest: use Unblock on the entry in the Query Log.
• By hand: add @@||example.com^ under Filters → Custom filtering rules (allows the domain and its subdomains).
• Not a blocklist? Check Filters → Blocked services and the safe browsing, parental control and safe search options in Settings.
• Restart the browser if it still fails a minute later. DNS answers are cached briefly.

Good to know

• Devices only use AdGuard Home if their DNS points to it. A browser using its own “Secure DNS” skips it entirely.
• If AdGuard Home forwards to a filtering upstream (for example NextDNS or Control D), the block may come from there instead. Its log will show the upstream answer.

Related guides

• Pi-hole
• AdGuard DNS
• NextDNS
• Your network
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