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Expected Behaviour:
Dashboard updating when running as a standalone unit on Raspberry Pi with access via SSH as required
Actual Behaviour:
The dashboard works fine when I am logged in as sudoer or non-sudoer user. When I reboot without logging in the dashboard does not update. When I access over SSH as the non sudoer (and su -u as required to gain sudo privileges), the dashboard still does not update. The dashboard shows DNS is active.
All software is up to date. I have run pihole -r, no improvement.
I have flushed logs (pihole -f) and browser cache.
When I run pihole -t there are no queries showing as processed.
When I run pihole -c, the DNS is confirmed as active.
I noticed that when I run pihole -d, the dashboard temporarily updates but then stops after a few seconds.
Wrt “What do you mean by the dashboard updating?”, when I am logged in directly to the pi the Total Queries on the Dashboard increase progressively (in the order of hundreds per hour). When I run the unit without any connections and just monitor the dashboard, the Total Queries hardly moves (<5 per hour).
BTW, I just mentioned the SSH connection (using key pairs, not passwords) just for completeness especially as that was the mechanism to acquire the logs I sent. To be clear, the logs are acquired in the “fault” condition, not when logged in directly under which circumstances the Total Queries on the Dashboard increase progressively as noted above.
Regards,
Tony
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Just to clarify, as the “fault” condition is reproducible, after raising the ticket I reverted to logging in directly to run some other tests. So I ran the command re top domains when logged in directly to the unit – does that invalidate the result? If you want me to run this in the “fault” condition let me know – if so, would you may want me to clear out logs etc and run for several hours before logging in over SSH and running this report again?
Regards,
Tony
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Check the queries you are getting. Maybe you have some processes that run in the background that trigger DNS queries when you are logged in. There does not seem to be an issue with Pi-hole here, just that your network traffic patterns are not as you expect.
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