3 Tier Blocking System

Hello All,

I'm attempting to make a multi-tier system with blocking ads and tracking. This is how I have it setup at the moment.

  1. NextDNS.io
  2. Pi-Hole on Raspberry Pi / DietPi
  3. FFX Strict Protection
  4. Cache loaded in RAM.

Issue, installed Pi-hole v5, see querries coming in but no blocklists assigned. I ran the Pihole -g tool. What am I missing? Didn't Pi-Hole have lists pre-populated or do I now have to install them myself? In the end I want to 'NOT' see anything in the 'about: protections' page in FFX. This tells me that the filtering system is working and catching everything. I'd rather nothing hit my network and that's what NextDNS is for but as you know it's not gonna catch everything and that's why I've created this tiered system.

Thanks for your time and attention,

Please post the token generated by

pihole -d

or do it through the Web interface:

Tools > Generate Debug Log

Here is the debug token. https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/dboiuzuhxd