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Expected Behaviour:
My Pi-hole to block sites like doubleclick.net
Actual Behaviour:
My router (Spectrum) is routing everything to secondary dns (cloudflare) and there are no DHCP settings in the My Spectrum app.
Debug Token:
https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/tcbCNnhI/
Your settings are wrong.
You have 2 groups: Default (ID=0) and Adblocker (ID=1).
All your lists are assigned to group 1, but all your clients are assigned to group 0.
The result is: there is nothing blocking the queries made from your devices.
Suggestion:
Assign all your lists (and the entry on the "Domains" page) to the Default group.
This will work as you expect.
I will do that but there are way more devices on my network and they are auto routing to secondary DNS instead of Pi-Hole.
There are 2 different things here:
All devices not explicitly assigned to a group will automatically use the Default group, when they use Pi-hole as DNS server.
You don't need to manually add each device.
It means you configured 2 different DNS servers on your router.
This will bypass Pi-hole. There is no real concept of primary/secondary for DNS. The words "primary" and "secondary" are misleading (and actually wrong, because this is not how DNS works).
In your specific case, your router is advertising itself as DNS server:
dns-server: 192.168.1.1
router: 192.168.1.1
The result is: all devices will use the router and the router will use its upstream DNS servers.
If you configured 2 DNS servers (Pi-hole + a public one) on the router, it will bypass Pi-hole very often.
Please read these posts to learn how to configure your devices and/or the router to use Pi-hole:
There are no DHCP settings and the router forces me to add two DNS servers.
If your router doesn't have LAN (network / DHCP) settings you have a few options:
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use another router (I know this is not very helpful if you only have one, but it is an option);
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use the Method 3 from the post above. This is not easy if you have too many devices, but allow you to select which devices will actually use Pi-hole.
- Try to configure Pi-hole IP in both fields. Or try to use
0.0.0.0 in the other field.
Method 3 won't work because i have non-win/mac/lin devices like my Android phone. Both primary and secondary DNS as the same IP isn't allowed neither is 0.0.0.0 Do you have any recommendations for routers that work with a spectrum modem?
I found a router. Thanks for the help anyways!
