New PiHole container not blocking anything

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I recently used portainer to stand up a docker container of PiHole. After launching and pointing my router to the Pihole IP as the DNS I am not seeing any clients connect and the dashboard shows <1% blocked requests. Not sure what went wrong or what needs to be configured to get this working.

I used the docker-compose found here.

I did update gravity on first login to the webUI and here was the log.

  [✗] DNS resolution is currently unavailable
  [✓] DNS resolution is available
  [i] Neutrino emissions detected...

  [✓] Preparing new gravity database
  [✓] Creating new gravity databases
  [✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range
  [i] Using libz compression

  [i] Target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
  [✓] Status: No changes detected
  [✓] Parsed 225658 exact domains and 0 ABP-style domains (blocking, ignored 1 non-domain entries)
      Sample of non-domain entries:
        - fe80::1%lo0

  [✓] Building tree
  [i] Number of gravity domains: 225658 (225658 unique domains)
  [i] Number of exact denied domains: 0
  [i] Number of regex denied filters: 0
  [i] Number of exact allowed domains: 0
  [i] Number of regex allowed filters: 0
  [✓] Optimizing database
  [✓] Swapping databases
  [✓] The old database remains available
  [✓] Cleaning up stray matter

  [✓] Done.

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/kllCleUg/

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By pointing the router, do you mean you adjusted the DHCP settings?

DHCP settings are only reflected once a client renews it's lease with the DHCP server. Depending on how long your lease time is, it could take a while before they switch to the pi-hole for DNS resolution.

If you have a windows client, open terminal and type ipconfig /release && ipconfig /renew, then ipconfig /all to see if the DNS server matches your pi-hole's IP.

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Thanks. That appeared to work on the windows laptop I was testing with and my Android phone once I forgot and reconnected to wifi.

Even after they are connected properly, I don't see them showing up on the "Clients" tab with it still showing "0" next to it.

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Am I misunderstanding what this is actually for?

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Yes, you misunderstood this page.

This page will only show clients you manually configure and assign to one or more groups.

Every other client not manually configured will automatically use the Default group.

You can see a list of clients using Pi-hole on the Tools > Network page.