I have been working on this for days and I can't seem to get the block list to work correctly. I have pi-hole installed within docker on my synology. However, when I create a group with the listed MAC address and then add the websites I would like to block, with the tag of the group. It doesn't work. My current set up is listed below.
Orbi Pro SXR30 mesh
Synology DS920
Pi-hole installed within docker
How I have my pi-hole configured.
SXR30 dns pointing to my pi-hole server.
Created group with my kids with the proper MAC/IP address.
I have a feeling I am missing something but I am not sure what it is. All PC's within my household all have DHCP address addressed to them automatically when they hit my network
Please upload a debug log and post just the token URL that is generated after the log is uploaded by running the following command from the Pi-hole host terminal:
pihole -d
or do it through the Web interface:
Tools > Generate Debug Log
(mark the checkbox to upload the log)
You appear to have renamed the default group to "Kids". As a result, you continue to have a single group with all domains, adlists and clients in that group.
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Groups
id enabled name date_added date_modified description
---- ------- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- --------------------------------------------------
0 1 Kids 2023-02-22 17:57:00 2023-02-22 18:25:02 Kids
If you want selective blocking, restore the default group and make a new (additional) group and selectively apply blocking and clients to that new group.
Thank you for your response. I have fixed the issue wot reflect what you have mentioned above and then added myself to the group. However, the issue is still the same. I have checked all the boxes in order to reflect that particular group and even corrected the group assignment.
I have also flushed my DNS several times and still the same thing.
That will only match a domain ending in the word instagram, which of course it won't do (it will end with com or something like that). That's possibly why nothing is being blocked. Assuming you were trying to catch any domains with the words included anywhere in them, instead use these:
In fact the same effect can be got here without the .* as long as they are definitely entered in Pi-hole as a RegEx filter Blacklist and not a Domain Blacklist. So
.*roblox.*
could be entered as just
roblox
and the same for the others. They will each match, and therefore block, any domain that has that word anywhere in it.