Hi, I'm a bit confused on what conditional forwarding does and how it helps the PiHole resolve hostnames. From my understanding, all it would do is when a client does a DNS request for a specified domain, it will forward that DNS request to the specified DNS server. This makes sense, but a lot of t…

I'm looking for an answer for how this works as well, I don't really understand it. The help text notes "One solution for this is to configure Pi-hole to forward these requests to your DHCP server" but I am not sure what "these requests" are and how conditional forwarding works in the scheme of th…

[image] Conditional forwarding: how does it work? Help Public DNS servers do not know anything about your local network, so this information has to be sourced from within your network originally. "these requests" refer to local hostname lookups (A/AAAA) or rev…

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks yubiuser for the clear explanation. I think partly the confusion is in PiHole's own explanation in the Conditional Forwarding settings where PiHole can "forward these requests to your DHCP server", but there is an assumption that the host running the DHCP server is…

You're right, pihole does these assumptions. Maybe you can provide a text that would be a better explanation? Keep in mind that most users might be unexperienced novice home users for which both assumptions are true. Users who are able to setup a dedicated DNS server might not need the explanation a…

Conditional Forwarding Meaning/How it Works?

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yubiuser August 21, 2020, 7:46am 3