Netgear Nighthawk MR60 and pihole

[Kaherdin]

Expected Behaviour:

Home network. Netgear nighthawk MR60 and two satellites. MR60 is DHCP and has many static IP addresses (IoT, phones etc).

One RPI zero running pihole, wired connection to MR60. Conditional Formatting enabled.
RPiZ also running WireGuard for external access.

I want to see the individual IP addresses in the query logs.

Actual Behaviour:

The pihole only shows the IP address of the MR60 in the logs (except for when I'm connection to the RPiZ via WireGuard of course.

I've been trying to setup the pihole and MR60 so that the MR60 will show the pihole the individual IP addresses, but I'm not succeeding.

And the nslookup on the RPiZ looks like this for several known devices;

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/24lRTh24/

[Bucking_Horn]

@Kaherdin

The pihole only shows the IP address of the MR60 in the logs

This already tells me that your router is configured to use Pi-hole as its upstream DNS server, which is also confirmed by your debug log:

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Discovering active DHCP servers (takes 10 seconds)
   Scanning all your interfaces for DHCP servers
   
   * Received 548 bytes from eth0:10.0.0.1
     Offered IP address: 10.0.0.31
     DHCP options:
      Message type: DHCPOFFER (2)
      router: 10.0.0.1
      dns-server: 10.0.0.1

This is a valid configuration:
DNS traffic in your network will be filtered by Pi-hole, but you won't be able to attribute DNS requests to individual clients, as all requests originate from your router.

@Kaherdin

Conditional Formatting enabled.

Conditional Forwarding has no bearing on this - it would only allow you to associate hostnames as known by your router to IP addresses as seen by Pi-hole. And Pi-hole currently just sees your router's IP.

If you want to change that, you'd have to configure your router to distribute Pi-hole as local DNS server via DHCP instead of using it as upstream.

You'd have to consult your router's documentation for configuration details or whether that option is supported at all, respectively.

[Kaherdin]

@Bucking_Horn

If you want to change that, you'd have to configure your router to distribute Pi-hole as local DNS server via DHCP instead of using it as upstream.

So, "local DNS server" is the goal here for me at the moment if I'm reading you right dear Sir?

[Bucking_Horn]

Yes, though it may not be labeled that way in your router.
The important part is that your router distributes a DNS server via its DHCP server.

Commonly, you'll find a respective DNS option as part of a LAN / DHCP setting in your router somewhere. You router's documentation should have the details (if it supports it - there are routers out there that don't).