Do I use a DHCP Server for my pi hole?

[jesiwag330]

I have an asus router and I have pi hole set up with eth0. It's a pi 4 and it's the most recent version of pi hole and it worked earlier on. I'm wondering whether to use it as a dhcp server too.

Can you please help me understand the pros and cons?

[DanSchaper]

Please research and read the posts we've written.

How do I use Pi-hole's built in DHCP server (and why would I want to)?

Using Your Existing Router For Network-wide Ad Blocking You might not need to use Pi-hole's DHCP server: In many home environments, your router also functions as your DHCP server. In this case, you can often set Pi-hole to be the DNS server for your network clients in the router's DHCP (or LAN) settings page, which allows all of your network clients to block ads simply by connecting to the network. Setting it up this way is also what makes Pi-hole very powerful for network-wide ad blocking. …

[jesiwag330]

Thanks! Mind taking a look at this post as well?

Connecting my raspberry pi with my router

The issue I am facing: My raspberry pi is not applying to my searches and opendns is not working according to Welcome to OpenDNS!. Details about my system: I have my raspberry pi plugged into my router with eth0 set up. I have opendns selected under upstream DNS servers and the custom fields for ipv4 and ipv6 are empty. I tried using the ip address in the URL for my admin console as the DNS server under the DNS Server as the DHCP server in my router. I also got the pi address from looking at…

[DanSchaper]

I have no comments.

[jesiwag330]

I'd like to get my pi hole up and running. Mind sharing your expertise?