I'm new to Pi-Hole, a lot of requests are being answered by dns.googl

[user3]

Expected Behaviour:

I think it should be answered by my pi-hole instead of Google DNS. I am using Debian for my OS and the hardware is a Proxmox LXC Container

Actual Behaviour:

What is actually happening is every recent request is being answered by dns.google

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/DN5Vx5n7/

[rdwebdesign]

Where exactly are you seeing the queries are answered by google?

[user3]

sorry for late reply, but it looks like this on the admin dashboard:

2024-08-31 17:05:35	A	mail.proton.me	192.168.5.183	OK (answered by dns.google#53)	IP (5.9ms)
2024-08-31 17:05:35	HTTPS	mail.proton.me	192.168.5.183	OK (answered by dns.google#53)	NODATA (5.9ms)

[user3]

some blocked queries get answered by dns.google as well

[rdwebdesign]

If the queries are on the Pi-hole dashboard, they were answered by Pi-hole.

What you are seeing is:

• your device (192.168.5.183 in this case) is sending queries to Pi-hole;
• Pi-hole decides which queries should be blocked or not;
• if not blocked, the query is sent to one of the upstream DNS servers you selected;
• the upstream server answers to Pi-hole and Pi-hole answers to your device.

You selected Google as your upstream DNS:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Setup variables
    PIHOLE_DNS_1=8.8.8.8
    PIHOLE_DNS_2=8.8.4.4

This is expected and completely normal.

[rdwebdesign]

@user3

some blocked queries get answered by dns.google

Please show an example. What do you see in your dashboard when it happens?

[user3]

like these, I'm sure that these firefox telemetry things are blocked by one of my adlists but they get OK

[rdwebdesign]

These queries are not blocked.
They are allowed (green background color) and they were forwarded to Google and answered ("OK").

Blocked queries are never "answered by" a DNS server and they look like this: