AT&T / DHCP "times out" every 2 - 5 minutes

[Pre8J]

Hmm... now it appears I'm having issues similar to this post:

Pihole not receiving clients, not blocking anything

Expected Behaviour: Pihole to work, recieve clients, and block ads. None of the above is happening. I have set my modem to use my pi as the only DNS server(s), and port 53 is open in my pi's firewall. I have Pihole v5.11.4, with AdminLTE version 5.13 and FTL version 5.16.1. Pihole is running on my Raspberry pi 0 W, running Raspbian Buster. Actual Behaviour: Pihole is running okay, but is recieving no clients and blocking no ads on any of my devices. DNS seems to be working fine, and I can acc…

After applying the above from yesterday, two updates.

1. My wife tried connecting her laptop to our wifi, but found that the router wasn't assigning her laptop an IP. She eventually figured a workaround using her work IT group (I have no idea how they managed this since I was away at work... not that I would understand). I figured it was the fact that I turned off the DHCP on the router, so I turned DHCP on my router back on again.

2. I connected a Roku TV to our wifi, but it doesn't appear to be a client using the pihole. The only DHCP lease I see in my settings is my own laptop.

Because of this, I tried turning off the DHCP on my router again - but then ran into the same problem: stopped being able to access the pihole admin page. =(