I use my DD-WRT router as DHCP and DnsMasq server - for many (valid) reasons...and most clients on the LAN just accept the automatic settings (meaning their DNS setting is the router). Yes, I understand that means that when a request gets to pi-hole it is seen as coming from the router... not the or…

part2 - (Accidentally hit enter) I run DNSMasq on my router and it does great job - even making local devices that are not static automatically addressable by name :slight_smile: ..... AND there is an optional config setting: Add Requestor MAC to DNS Query adds the internal requestor's MAC addre…

[image] sean311: could be read by pi-hole to discern the downstream originating clients ? This has been implemented a while ago: [image] Support for add-subnet option from dnsmasq (ECS/EDNS0 Client Subnet) Implemented The ask: Add support within FTLDNS f…

IF it is already implemented, and I am using that setting "add-mac" , then why are the downstream clients (ie the LAN devices ) not showing in PI-Hole, but rather just the router shows as the pi-hole client with 99% of the acitivity... ? :thinking: and BTW ... WOW !! your response time on that post…

[image] sean311: Add Requestor MAC to DNS Query --add-mac[=base64|text] Did you specify any option here? base64 is not supported by Pi-hole, only text is. __ Please add DEBUG_EDNS0=true to /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf (create if it does not exist) so you get debug log lines in /var/log/…

ok - I will do :smiley: The dnsmasq.conf in my router just has "add-mac" has no "=base64 or text" .. I will specify "=text" Ok - I have added the ``` DEBUG_EDNS0=true .. There was only one line that conf file before, being: "PRIVACYLEVEL=0"

I can see now using TAIL on the FTL log that the mac addresses are coming through... [2021-06-23 19:24:08.502 14159M] EDNS(0) requestor's UDP payload size: 512 bytes [2021-06-23 19:24:08.502 14159M] EDNS(0) code 65073, optlen 17 (bytes 4 - 21 of 21) [2021-06-23 19:24:08.502 14159M] EDNS(0) MAC a…

[image] sean311: should I be seeing client names in the dashboard TOP LISTS now ? No. For name resolution at the dashboard Pi-hole needs to know the IP of the clients, not the MAC. You (also) need to add --add-subnet=32 to your dnsmsq config (and 128 for IPv6) In Tools -> Network you shou…

[image] yubiuser: --add-subnet=32 to your dnsmsq config ok - I do not use IPv6 so I will add "add-mask=32" to the DNSMasq settings on my router. Why 32 , that seems strange ? I mean as subnet mask it would be 24... But, whatever, I will add it like that =32. [image] yubiuser: In order …

[image] sean311: Why 32 , that seems strange ? I mean as subnet mask it would be 24... But, whatever, I will add it like that =32. Because this will add the exact IP of the client making the request. If you only add /24 dnsmasq will only add the /24 subnet to the request, making it impossible…

As soon as I added "add-mask=32" (I also tried 24) ... all name resolving stopped on my network. Meaning it could not resolve local name nor internet names.. I have taken "add-mask" out again. I added it on my router ( which is running dnsmasq for the LAN ) ... or did you mean I should add that int…

Help with EDNS(0) MAC

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yubiuser June 23, 2021, 10:54am 3

This has been implemented a while ago: