Hi I don't have much network knowledge, but I would like to keep DHCP on the router, EdgeRouter X keep DNS on the Pi-hole be able to resolve local hostnames Up until now I had been using the same setup, but Pi-hole is showing IPs, while most of devices have hostnames defined in the rout…

Try run below nslookup on a client (Linux, Windows or MacOS) or on Pi-hole where in my case, 10.0.0.220 is a known client with an active DHCP lease (my laptop) and 10.0.0.2 is my DHCP server: C:\>nslookup 10.0.0.220 10.0.0.2 Server: ph5a.home.dehakkelaar.nl Address: 10.0.0.2 Name: laptop.home…

this is my set up. i put local hostnames in /etc/hosts on the device running the pi-hole, still use my router for DHCP.. hope i'm understanding correctly.

Ok, thanks, I'll try that. I was thinking there is another way, as I'm already maintaining names in the router's DHCP server.

[image] Ionut_Baban: I don't want to use the Pi-hole's DHCP server, as if it goes down, I risk having issues. If Pi-hole goes down you have bigger issues. There isn't much risk here.

[image] deHakkelaar: Conditional Forwarding Yes, this worked for me. The router was able too lookup the IPs and once I enabled the Conditional Forwarding Pi-hole was able to lookup too.

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How to handle DNS on Pi-hole, DHCP on router and also resolve local hostnames

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