Allow some clients to bypass Pi-Hole

[dr18]

Can't I update the dnsmasq with a separate static DHCP config for my phone's MAC, with a different DNS? Thanks

[jfb]

Yes you can. But that client will have no filtering from Pi-Hole. I may have misunderstood what you want to do.

If you use Pi-Hole as your DHCP server, you can use dnsmasq settings to specify an alternate DNS for clients by MAC address - these clients will not use Pi-Hole.

Things you can do with dnsmasq!

I came up with some stuff that eases things a little bit with my Pi-Hole life. Some of the ideas here, I gathered from around the internet. I wanted to share my findings. These configs are to be placed in /etc/dnsmasq.d I do realize that these could easily be combined into a single 04-custom.conf, but for the ease of teaching myself things I can do with this,, I like them seperate. Bypass Pihole by MAC Address What this Does: Find the MAC Address of the device that you want to skip pihole, …

You can also manually assign DNS on the client, and that will also result in that client bypassing Pi-Hole.

[dr18]

Ok, so I can't have the static dhcp device point to pihole and the rest point to a different DNS?

I'm trying to work around a power drain bug on a device, when static IP s are set. Thanks

[jfb]

You can. See the reply above (reply 2) (may have been missed because I moved this question to a new thread).

[dr18]

Thanks, sounds good
Yes I did miss that posting.

[jpgpi250]

There is an entire topic, with examples here. If you are also using unbound, look at my solution here.

[dr18]

Great. Thanks

[dr18]

I got this to work by MAC. I'm wondering, is there a way to get this to work (different DNS config) by SSID?

I see online examples to do that, but that's for when the dnsmasq instance is running on a router and you have separate interfaces to work off of. Thanks.