I am running pihole on a pine64, and it seems to be running correctly on the device. I can access the pihole admin page via the pine64's IP http://192.168.1.108/admin and it only shows ads have been blocked on that device. I have set the IP address of the pine64 to be the primary DNS server: [ima…

After running pihole -r again shortly after my previous post it now seems to be working. Thanks a lot for the help.

jacob.salmela March 3, 2018, 9:27pm 2

Why should Pi-hole be my only DNS server? FAQs

Reduced Ad Blocking Capability The main reason you should Pi-hole as your only DNS server is that you will see increased performance in the blocking of ads. If you have two DNS servers (Pi-hole and something else), your network clients may not always query Pi-hole for name resolution. If a query happens to be answered from a non-Pi-hole DNS server, your block lists will not apply (since that DNS server doesn't know about them). All Queries Need To Go Through Pi-hole First Since other DNS serv…

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