You propably cant use the Asus DHCP service if want to have proper statistics shown on the Pi-hole dashboard + proper DNS name resolution blocking IP's domains from the blocklists consistently.
Expected Behaviour:
Pi-Hole is operating successfully for many web sites.
Actual Behaviour:
However, I've noticed that some web sites (this one as an example - Australia's official weather forecasts & weather radar - Bureau of Meteorology ) does not have it's advertisements blocked by Pi-Hole. However, if someone clicks on the displayed advertisement, Pi-Hole successfully blocks the advert web site from opening. Do I have something configured incorrectly, or is there something unusual about …
Hi @GeorgeT and thanks for your input.
But the issue in this thread is that he Asus router also advertises its own DNS service to the clients alongside the DNS server configured in the DHCP DNS section on the router.
As the DNS service on the Asus router isn't Pi-holed, ads leak through.
You could configure the router's upstream WAN DNS setting to point to the Pi-hole IP address but this screws up the statistics on the Pi-hole web GUI as from Pi-hole point of view, some of the queries origina…
And read this bit bout Asus routers: