A few of my devices use Randomized MACs (and I want to keep it that way)
is there a way to add unblocks specifically for some of those devices ? I tried adding them as clients using hostname (they name the show up with in the pihole dhcp list) but that doesnt seem to work.
Not really.
You can't identify which MAC is from a device using randomization. The reason people use randomized MAC addresses is to avoid identification (or make it very hard).
MAC address randomization can be disabled per network. You can disable it on your local network, but keep it enable on others.
Since you don't want to disable it, the only thing you can do is to add the "unblocks" to the Default group. This way, every device not specified in the Clients page will use these allow rules.
Oh I wasn’t aware this was a possibility. Let me look into this. Thanks !! The main issue I had is these are mobile phones, so they often swap networks.
Yeah, I understand that but the client page on pihole mentioned I can use host names
So I was hoping I could just use that for filter through, but It seems like MAC is required. Maybe I’m understanding this incorrectly.
You can use hostnames, but not every OS sends the hostname when MAC randomization is used.
I do always see the same names in the pihole DHCP, my assumption was that these are the hostnames, is that not the case ?
