% blocked dropped from +20% to 9%

[DanSchaper]

@rmedlinger

I have now run the pi-hole vm on both hardware platforms with the same results - that it blocks ads only when it's the only dns server listed on the Linksys router.

Why should Pi-hole be my only DNS server?

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…

Edit: That is from May of 2017