Group management not working as expected on standard pihole setup

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  1. Installed pihole as per the One-Step Automated Install.
  2. Updated the DNS of my Linksys Router (Model SPNMX42) to point to the IP of my raspberrypi device.
  3. Created a resevred IP for my raspberrypi device.
  4. No other customisations made.

Expected Behaviour:

Following Example 1: Exclude from blocking, I would expect my device to be completely unblocked.

Actual Behaviour:

Client blocks ads.

Debug Token:

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

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to nie jest odosobniony przypadek . Zjadłem zęby na tym i NIC. Próbowałem wszystkiego a on i tak traktuje wszystkich w sieci jednakowo.

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Did you manage to fix it?

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You group assignment seems to be fine:

  • your created some groups. The last one is Laptop, with ID=3;
  • you also configured a few devices. You configured your laptop to use group Laptop;
  • the Laptop group is not using any lists. This means any device in this group should not be blocked.

On the other hand, I noticed your router is advertising itself as DNS server:

      dns-server: 192.168.1.1
      router: 192.168.1.1

Apparently your router is the only device using Pi-hole.

In this configuration, your laptop will use the router as DNS server and the router will use Pi-hole.
Pi-hole will only see the router, which is using the Default group.

To make sure, what is the output of these 2 commands, running from your laptop command line?

nslookup flurry.com

nslookup flurry.com 192.168.1.138
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Thanks for the response. You have summarised the issue accurately. My laptop is allowing requests, when it should not.

Here is the output you requested:

nslookup flurry.com
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  2a02:6b60:9b91:0:8269:1aff:fe10:4f81

*** UnKnown can't find flurry.com: No response from server

nslookup flurry.com 192.168.1.138
Server:  pi.hole
Address:  192.168.1.138

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    flurry.com
Addresses:  76.223.84.192
          13.248.158.7
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To add to this, I noticed the following message on the diagnostics page:

Client 192.168.1.1 has been rate-limited (current config allows up to 1000 queries in 60 seconds)

Indies this have anything to do with my issue?

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These 2 sentences are contradicting each other.

What exactly do you want?
a) my laptop should be completely unblocked, allowing every query (and show ads)
b) my laptop should block ads

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Sorry I realised my error in the earlier posts. I want my laptop to allow ads after adding it to the laptop group.

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So do you know why I am experiencing this issue? The Laptop group does not have any associated adlists, so I would expect my laptop to display ads. However as I mentioned, it contributes to block ads.

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