Ads and blacklist no being blocked since v5.0 in "No Statistics" mode

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I have a similar problem.

The fourth version of pi-hole worked great.
After upgrading to the fifth version, it stopped blocking anything at all.

The network configuration has not changed. DNS requests definitely go through pi-hole, but it can resolve domains from the blacklist as if they are not there...

For example: r.mradx.net

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# nslookup r.mradx.net
Server:    192.168.1.33
Address 1: 192.168.1.33 pi

Name:      r.mradx.net
Address 1: 2a00:1148:db00::28 r.mradx.net
Address 2: 217.69.139.244 r.mradx.net

As you can see, the domain is on the block list, but pi -hole resolves it.

192.168.1.33 is the RaspberryPi address with the pi-hole installed in it.

# nslookup pi.hole 
Server:    192.168.1.33
Address 1: 192.168.1.33 pi

Name:      pi.hole
Address 1: 192.168.1.33 pi

The same thing happens with manually added domains to the blacklist.

I already completely removed the pi-hole and reinstalled the fifth version - this did not help.

2

I just moved your post to a new topic to not mix up similar but maybe different issues.

Please generate a debug token with pihole -d or via the web interface.

Do you see any queries in the query log?

3

My debug token is: https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/9zxcg6r6du

In my privacy settings "No Statistics mode" was selected, I just switched to "Show everything and record everything" and the blocking started to work! I switched back to "No Statistics mode" and the blocking stopped working again.
It seems that the problem is somehow related to this.

4

Yes, that's a known problem that will be fixed in v5.1.

Privacy level 4 will be removed.

5

Thanks for your reply! I switched to "Anonymous mode" and everything works fine.
But will the “sudo pihole logging off” command turn off the blocking?

6

It should not, because this is just about logging to var/log/pihole.log or not. But please try and let me know :slight_smile:

7

Yes, disabling logging does not disable blocking :slight_smile: Thank you!

8

There is another question, inspired by the care of the flash card in RaspberryPi: with this configuration, is the result of each query written immediately to the database, or is data added to the database at some interval?

9

The default is to write to the database every minute. This is a user-configurable parameter.

DBINTERVAL