Issue: When I enter an Alternate DNS in my network adapter, Pi-hole seems to be bypassed. System: I have pi-hole installed on another windows machine separate from my laptop. It's installed and working. I then changed the primary DNS and used cloudfare as alternate DNS, but ads keep loading. If I r…

Alternative DNS Is Loading Ads?

jfb July 18, 2020, 1:20am 2

Why should Pi-hole be my only DNS server? FAQs

Reduced Ad Blocking Capability The main reason you should Pi-hole as your only DNS server is that you will see increased performance in the blocking of ads. If you have two DNS servers (Pi-hole and something else), your network clients may not always query Pi-hole for name resolution. If a query happens to be answered from a non-Pi-hole DNS server, your block lists will not apply (since that DNS server doesn't know about them). All Queries Need To Go Through Pi-hole First Since other DNS serv…

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