Have to manually 'Restart DNS server' when reboot pihole

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I'm having a problem when I reboot my pihole device. It works brilliantly with a number of static IP addresses set in /etc/dnsmasq.d/staticip.conf and I am currently running custom DNS servers on it via the web configuration (Norton's full Connect Safe DNS servers). However, when I reboot the pihole device, no addresses can be resolved on any of my devices until I go to 'Restart DNS server' in settings.

Any thoughts/workaround for an automatic delayed restart of DNS servers upon phole device boot? Getting my hands dirty in the system isn't a problem.

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Could you generate a debug log and upload it (you will be given a token you can provide us) at a time when it does not work (i.e. after reboot)?

Use

pihole -d
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Will do.

This morning I have rebooted the device a couple of times since and it has worked properly. However, if it does it again I will generate a debug log. Thanks for the support.

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Hello, i guess i have the same problem or similar. when i reboot my raspberry dns is not working until i restart dns server manually. Clients e.g. Android says "no internet connection" but the Pihole web interface is working fine...

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Please go to your settings page and look at the Advanced DNS Settings. Select either the second, or the third option.

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Thanks for your quick reply

these are my settings at the moment:
-never forward non-FQDNs --checked
-never forward reverse lookups for private IP ranges --checked
-Use DNSSEC --unchecked

-Listen on all interfaces, but allow only queries from devices that are at most one hop away (local devices) --checked
-Listen only on interface eth0 --unchecked
-Listen on all interfaces, permit all origins (make sure your Pi-hole is firewalled!) --unchecked

Do you mean?
-never forward reverse lookups for private IP ranges
-Use DNSSEC

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Sorry for being unspecific,

I mean change the Setting "Interface listening behavior" to either

  • Listen only on interface eth0 (preferred), or
  • Listen on all interfaces, permit all origins (use this if you have more than one interface, e.g. a VPN, running on the same device)
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No worries :wink: thank you, i will check this in the evning and post the result... i use teamviewer, so maybe this is the issue....

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Yeah...Second Option "Listen only on interface eth0 (preferred)" works fine! Thank you!

PS: TeamViewer was not the Problem...

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