[Help] [Questions] About Gl-MT3000, AdguardHome and Openwrt - Lemmy

Hi there, i have a few questions about GL-Mt3000 and Openwrt. Context Wall fell free to skip: ::: spoiler spoiler I bought a year ago a Gl-Mt3000 and have been using it as a home router since then. It was fantastic, since the interface is really easy, i put all my iot on a guest network, my family cellphones on another and activated Adguardhome with little knowledge needed. Now, i wanted to start learning a bit more, so i decided to host the dns sinkhole (Adguard Home) by myself on my main network. I more or less got it working, it shouted a few errors but it worked. My problem is that the iot devices on the guest network can’t access it. Tinkering with the gl-inet interface i was able to proxy all dns request to the Adguard server, but since they are redirected from the router i lose the statistics since every query appears as if it was done by the router itself. From what i read, there are ways to make the udp 53 port reach the guest network but it flew a bit over my head, and i don’t know how touching luci will mess with the gl-inet interface. ::: Questions: Is there any benefit to host AdguardHome outside the router? I did it to learn, but i don’t know if it has any advantages. I plan to learn openwrt and flash the router to vanilla openwrt. My reasons are that: - I feel that im restricted by the gl-inet interface. - Gl-inet doesn’t seem to update too frequently their firmware. - I’m worried about their custom software will cause problems if i tinker Luci too much. - I think it will easier to learn the vanilla version than a custom version. Does all of this make sense? Do you think is worth to spend time on this?