DHCP-Option-6 integration in the GUI

[Antony_Edwards]

hey all this feature would be useful for me and maybe a few others to be implemented basically for those running two pi holes and cant access manual dns settings on devices and/or routers

basically when the dhcp gives the ip addresses to clients i want it to be able to push more than one dns server.

the way i have found to do this is to enable the dhcp server after editing the 02-pihole-dhcp.conf file and adding the line

dhcp-option=6,192.168.1.44,192.168.1.45

192.168.1.44 and 45 are both pi holes

if this can be implemented in the gui that would be awesome and would really save others a headache if they had the same issue.

Thanks

[DL6ER]

We intentionally do not offer a one-click solution for adding a second Pi-hole through the DHCP settings as we have no way of synchronizing statistics between multiple running DNS servers.

Such a feature is on our long-term to-do list, however, it has somewhat low priority at the moment.

[Tntdruid]

Use Webmin + ISC Dhcp Server

You get nice gui for the dhcp server.

[pborjas]

@Tntdruid

Webmin

I edited the 02-pihole-dhcp.conf file, but it got overwritten by the GUI. Has this been implemented in the GUI since the original post?

[RamSet]

It is not implemented however, in order to avoid future updates from overwriting your settings follow these steps here:

How to propagate multiple DNS IPs to clients

You cannot do that via the setupVars.conf because that file is the configuration file for the local installation of Pi-hole. In order to achieve what you want, you need to create a file under /etc/dnsmasq.d/ Call it something like 99-DNS.conf or something easy for you to track by. Doesn't have to be numbered or anything. Then, you'd have to add this particular line to the file: dhcp-option=6,192.168.1.2,192.168.1.3 Change the IPs to whatever you want/need and remember to restart the Pi-hol…

[yubiuser]

Pi-hole v6 will give you the ability to add custom dnsmasq config lines via the web interface. You can easily add additional DHCP server configurations there.