Help understanding local DNS

[Mike_Bell]

Expected Behaviour:

Adding local dns entry pve.local 192.168.1.200 should make it available to all devices using pihole on my local network.

Actual Behaviour:

I'm unable to access pve.local from any machines using pihole as it's DNS (fallback 1.1.1.1). Pinging from the pihole does work though.

Am I understanding this right? If I add these domains it should resolve for everyone on the network?

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/dzl00ba5pm

[deHakkelaar]

You should not configure a "fallback" DNS server for the clients:

Why should Pi-hole be my only DNS server?

Reduced Ad Blocking Capability The main reason you should Pi-hole as your only DNS server is that you will see increased performance in the blocking of ads. If you have two DNS servers (Pi-hole and something else), your network clients may not always query Pi-hole for name resolution. If a query happens to be answered from a non-Pi-hole DNS server, your block lists will not apply (since that DNS server doesn't know about them). All Queries Need To Go Through Pi-hole First Since other DNS serv…

[Mike_Bell]

Ah awesome, I've removed the fallback dns and also change the tld to home and all seems to be working now.