Installing Pi-hole after installing manually dnsmasq

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Expected Behaviour:

I have just launched my first Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspberry Pi OS Lite (debian 12 bookworm), then installed dnsmasq, configured it and while browsing web - got suggested to install Pi-hole as well :slight_smile: After doing so - I have received NTP error, but after debug I see multiple issues, including ports conflicts and I am still not receiving my IPs on the devices in my network.

  • Raspberry Pi 3
  • Raspberry Pi OS Lite (debian 12 bookworm)

Actual Behaviour:

All devices (including my Raspberry Pi) keeps getting old IPs (when my ISP’s wifi router was also DHCP server).

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/WNM7QwHj/

I am worried I might be getting into multiple issues and might need to wipe / reinstall stuff on my Raspberry - if so - just please let me know what steps in which order I should do not to mess it again :smiley:

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I have installed pihole many many many times, i install a fresh OS like you do and run the updates, reboot, install pihole and it works, always !

So you don’t need to install dnsmasq seperatly.

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Pi-hole comes with its own DNS server, pihole-FTL, which is a tailored fork of dnsmasq.

To avoid conflicts, you should disable or uninstall dnsmasq.

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