Hostname resolution

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I've seen and read several posts on this and the majority of what I read was "switch to pihole DHCP" or "modify /etc/hosts/ on the machine". The latter of the two being incredibly in unideal I switched from my router controlled DHCP to pihole. On doing that it seemed like all hostnames were ignored and I could only access things via ip; I switched back.

I'm feeling kinda hopeless. I know it seems trivial to use hostnames over IP but when you have a family as big as I do and the amount of people coming in and out of the network as I do you really want to simplify everything for the end user.

With pihole filtering my main use case here, how the heck am I supposed to arrange my network settings so that hostnames are viable?

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We offer a built-in Local DNS page where you can map host names to IP's.

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After above switching, did you renew the DHCP leases on involved clients?

Disconnecting them from network and reconnect will do that usually.
Otherwise reboot involved clients.

EDIT: And use the nslookup tool on a client (Windows/MacOS/Linux) to test eg:

C:\>nslookup hakpc
Server:  pi.hole
Address:  10.0.0.2

Name:    hakpc.home.dehakkelaar.nl
Address:  10.0.0.11
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Check if your router is capable of correctly answering DNS requests for local hosts, e.g. by running

nslookup <de.vi.ce.ip> <ro.ut.er.ip>

Substitute <de.vi.ce.ip> and <ro.ut.er.ip> as appropriate (e.g. nslookup 192.168.0.42 192.168.0.1).
Your router should answer with a hostname for your device.

If it does, you could try to enable Pi-hole's Conditional Forwarding via Settings | DNS.

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