Issue with DNSMasq

[MasterGberry]

Hi.

I had a OpenVPN NAT bridge setup on this device before trying to install pi-hole. DNSMasq seems to be having issues booting back up. I am guessing it's from this setup before hand. I want to ideally not disrubt my original setup. I turned off the VPN though when installing pi-hole. Sometimes I have the VPN on, and sometimes I don't have it on.

My debug token is t4706h1wj0

Thanks.

[jacob.salmela]

@MasterGberry

t4706h1wj0

You're running Jessie and dnsmasq v2.72, which is not compatible with Pi-hole v3.3. You have two options:

Install a more recent dnsmasq on Raspbian Jessie

Update: 2018-08-06 As of v4.0, Pi-hole ships with _FTL_DNS, our fork of dnsmasq, which should restore compatibility with Raspbian Jessie. We still recommend installing a newer OS as Jessie is EOL anyway. Please note that this tutorial is only meant for Rasbian Jessie, although it might (to some extend) also help with similar issues on other Debian versions. Do this at your own risk (however, the likeliness of a failure is rather small in our opinion). First step: Download more recent versio…

or

How do I revert to a previous version of Pi-hole?

if you want to run a different version of Pi-hole, it is possible to install an older version. Typically, we release all three components of Pi-hole at the same time (Core, Web, and FTL), so you'll usually want to install version from the same "release." For example, we ran into some issues with v3.3 and dnsmasq compatibility with some systems, so some users needed to revert to v3.2.1 (Core and Web) but as part of the 3.2.1 "release," the latest version of FTL was 2.13.2. Because we version e…

[MasterGberry]

Hi.

Thanks for the detailed response. I opted for the second option and now have the admin panel working...it looks like it finished installation but I'm not sure it's working still. My router required 2 DNS servers so I put the Pi as the first one and google as the second.

Is there some way I can verify that it is working?

Thanks.

[MasterGberry]

I see traffic going through pihole -t but nothing is on the graphs still, is there something I need to do to fix this?

I did not have log-queries=extra in my .conf file but just had log-queries

Thanks again

[MasterGberry]

Never mind, I missed the last line of your instructions. All good now.

Thanks for your help.

[DL6ER]

@MasterGberry

My router required 2 DNS servers so I put the Pi as the first one and google as the second.

This is not working. There is nothing special about "primary" and "secondary". Clients can use whichever they like. You have to set both to the Pi-hole or use the Pi-hole DHCP server.