I've just finished installing Pi-hole on my RPi and have configured it to run as my DHCP server. All wifi devices have been rebooted, so hoping to understand some ways that i can look to test the effectiveness of Pi-hole?
Thanks in advance, looking forward to being a part of the community.
From a client that you expect to use Pi-hole, run the following commands:
nslookup pi.hole
That should return your Pi-hole's IP, and that IP should also match that of the server at the start of the very same reply. If so, it confirms that your client is using Pi-hole as DNS server.
nslookup flurry.com 192.168.0.xx
Replace 192.168.0.xx with your Pi-hole's actual IP address before executing.
That should return 0.0.0.0 with a default Pi-hole, which confirms your Pi-hole is blocking domains.
nslookup flurry.com 192.168.0.18
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.18
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
i'm comfortable that Pi-Hole is installed and operating correctly. just wondering where i should expect it to work? Ads on websites should no longer visible. Any other benefits of using pi-hole?