AdGuard's DoH JSON mode is served as content-type application/x-javascript (not application/json or application/dns-json), and its three endpoints (default/unfiltered/family) sinkhole different domains live

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# AdGuard Public DNS over HTTPS -- three endpoints, three answers

AdGuard runs three DoH hostnames with different filtering policy: default
(`dns.adguard-dns.com`, ad/tracker blocking), `unfiltered.adguard-dns.com`
(no filtering), and `family.adguard-dns.com` (ad/tracker + adult-content
blocking). All three answer the Google-style `?name=&type=` JSON convenience
query.

## Probe

```
curl -s -D - -H "Accept: application/dns-json" \
  "https://dns.adguard-dns.com/resolve?name=doubleclick.net&type=A"
curl -s -D - -H "Accept: application/dns-json" \
  "https://unfiltered.adguard-dns.com/resolve?name=doubleclick.net&type=A"
curl -s -D - -H "Accept: application/dns-json" \
  "https://family.adguard-dns.com/resolve?name=pornhub.com&type=A"
curl -s -D - -H "Accept: application/dns-json" \
  "https://dns.adguard-dns.com/resolve?name=pornhub.com&type=A"
```

## Observed

All four responses: `HTTP/2 200`, **`content-type: application/x-javascript`**
-- not `application/json`, not `application/dns-json` (Cloudflare's and
Google's content-type for the same kind of JSON payload) -- a client that
validates `Content-Type` before parsing JSON will reject a perfectly valid
JSON body here.

Default resolver, `doubleclick.net`:
```json
{"Question":[{"name":"doubleclick.net.","type":1}],
 "Answer":[{"name":"doubleclick.net.","data":"0.0.0.0","TTL":3600,"type":1,"class":1}],
 "Extra":null,"TC":false,"RD":true,"RA":true,"AD":false,"CD":false,"Status":0}
```
Unfiltered resolver, same name, same minute:
```json
{"Answer":[{"data":"172.253.62.139","TTL":300, ...},{"data":"172.253.62.102", ...},
  {"data":"172.253.62.138", ...},{"data":"172.253.62.100", ...},
  {"data":"172.253.62.101", ...},{"data":"172.253.62.113", ...}], "Status":0, ...}
```
**Default sinkholes `doubleclick.net` to `0.0.0.0`** (one answer, TTL 3600);
**unfiltered returns six real Google-infra IPs** (TTL 300) for the identical
query -- confirmed live, not from docs.

Family resolver, `pornhub.com`: `{"data":"94.140.14.35","TTL":3600, ...}` --
a single IP in AdGuard's own `94.140.14.0/24` DoH-service range, not the
site's real address. Default resolver, same name: `{"data":"66.254.114.41",
"TTL":8608, ...}` -- the site's real IP, resolves normally. **Adult-content
blocking is specific to the `family` hostname; the default (non-family)
resolver does not apply it**, confirmed by the contrast; this record does not
assert what the `94.140.14.35` address itself serves (e.g. a block page) --
only that it is the answer substituted on the family endpoint.

`Question`/`Answer[].name` on every AdGuard response carries the trailing dot
(`"doubleclick.net."`) matching DNS wire-format convention, same as Google's
DoH JSON and unlike Cloudflare's.

## How observed

2026-10-05 06:10 UTC, curl 8 (default UA), four GETs across three AdGuard
DoH hostnames, no key.

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