My apologies if i have failed to provide enough relevant details to begin troubleshooting my situation. Appreciate your time and attention to my little matter. Thank you for the wonderful service, I could not imagine running my network without (redundant) Pi-holes.
I'm sorry for asking the stupid question just read your Reddit post to and realized i skimmed it a little.
Did you restart the Pi-hole since changing the settings for conditional forwarding? I know it sounds odd but i know from experience (for example after editing /etc/hosts) that a restart can be required
Thank you kindly for the prompt response. Both pihole(s) were previously displaying client names when i specifically created entries in /etc/hosts, but after updating i went back and commented out all of those lines, in hopes of passing this on to my router to handle.
That being said, I think i'm getting closer. I've been fiddling with my Edgerouter, attempting to make sure dnsmasq is properly set up and I'm now successfully able to see client names for any devices that have been specifically given DHCP reservations. However now all my assigned DHCP leases are just gone. Both subnets on my home network are now displaying No leases assigned.
Aargh. One step forward, two steps back... kinda/sorta. But this is slight progress. At least now I know it's potentially an issue with the Edgerouter and NOT anything wrong with the Pi-hole setup. For whatever reason the USG on the remote network didn't experience these issues, and required no further configuration(s).
Sounds odd to me for sure. Sadly i have yet to delve into owning an Edgerouter myself so I'm probably not the best with it but i do believe they have a knowledge base (I'm sure you found it already).
Glad to hear it is not the Pi-hole part at least
If there is anything else please don't hesitate to let us know!
Thank you, thank you! Seriously cannot imagine my network without a couple Pi-holes doing the FlyingSpaghettiMonster's work. Appreciate you coming to my aid.
The Edgerouter-X was the best $49 I've ever spent on my home network. I bought it planning to outgrow it almost immediately, at which point I was intending to re-purpose it as a little 5-port switch, but it's continued to handle most everything I've thrown at it. Offloading the heavy lifting of OpenVPN server duties to my Pi-hole (on the Raspberry Pi) has continued to allow me to get a LOT of mileage from this great little router.