Debian 12 DNS Service is NOT running

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Expected Behaviour:

DNS Service is running

Actual Behaviour:

DNS Service is NOT running

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/wzDJ9zon/

Running Debian 12

after setting up static ip and installing I am not blocking ads on devices with their DNS set to the static ip of my server I ran pihole status which came back with [ X ] DNS service is NOT running

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This is expected.

Pi-hole needs port 53 to run, but you have a service (called connmand) using the port:

[✗] udp:127.0.0.1%lo:53 is in use by connmand (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
    (...)
[✗] udp:[::1]%lo:53 is in use by connmand (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
    (...)
[✗] tcp:127.0.0.1%lo:53 is in use by connmand (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)
    (...)
[✗] tcp:[::1]%lo:53 is in use by connmand (https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/#ports)

You need to disabled connmand.

After that, restart Pi-hole with:

sudo service pihole-FTL restart
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Try below: