Config error is REFUSED every night

[deHakkelaar]

Did you select OpenDNS as upstream for Pi-hole?

OpenDNS - "reply error is REFUSED"

[Full disclosure: I'm an employee of Cisco and my teams works on the OpenDNS resolvers. View expressed here are my own though informed by my history and exposure to the product.] Sounds like you may be hitting a ratelimit. We only use REFUSED in a few cases, primarily when rate limits have been violated but also if the domain in questions appears to be part of certain attack patterns (I don't think that's the case here.) Do you have an OpenDNS account or are you just pointing to OpenDNS witho…

Other DNS providers might deploy similar rate limiting or other reasons to reply with a REFUSED status.