Add upstream proxy settings to AdGuard Home

[tomiams]

Regarding AdGuard Home features, an essential one would be the integration of a proxy (with authentication) into it.

At the very least, as a temporary solution, add an option to mask/randomize the IP address going to the upstream DNS to fetch the website addresses.

[ameshkov]

Do you mean an upstream proxy, right?

[tomiams]

Correct.

[ameshkov]

This proxy is supposed to be used when AG downloads filters updates, right?

I am not sure using it for anything else would be viable

[tomiams]

Yes, that is exactly what it would be used for.
Potentially, when AdGuard Home auto-update (or GUI update) feature is implemented, the update checks and download could be fetched through the proxy as well.

[ameshkov]

@tomiams got it. Makes sense indeed

[hmage]

@tomiams While you wait for the GUI, you can already use upstream HTTP proxy by setting the HTTP_PROXY environment variable for AdGuardHome:

export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.lan:3128/

or, if there's username and password:

export HTTP_PROXY=http://user:[email protected]:3128/

You need to put this environment setting accordingly depending on how you launch AdGuardHome.

[tomiams]

@hmage Thank you for the awesome tip! Works really well.

[desimone]

Hey AdGuard team (@hmage , @ameshkov)

We recently added a recipe to do just this with Pomerium. Look forward to your thoughts. :)
pomerium/pomerium#359

[ameshkov]

@desimone looks good, thank you!