Newbie pi-hole diagnosis error

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Received the following error:

RATE_LIMIT Client 192.168.1.1 has been rate-limited for at least 21 seconds (current limit: 1000 queries per 60 seconds)

DNS is setup on a Netgear Nighthawk RS700S router. Everything appears to be working as expected. The IP in the error above is the router address. The pi-hole is set to a static address of 192.168.1.240:

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This address is outside of the addresses automatically assigned by the router:

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Created a debug log, the token of which is available at https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/QirplBzX/.

I’m assuming that I’ve configured something incorrectly as I just set this up earlier in the week.

Thanks for any help.

Chris

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Maybe not...

I never had a netgear router, but apparently this model advertises itself as DNS server and you can't assign a custom DNS server on the DHCP settings page.

As a result, all your devices will query the router and the router will query Pi-hole.
This causes a bigger amount of queries coming from one single device (the router) and it triggers the rate limit.

You have 2 options:

  1. increase the rate limits values a bit.

  2. you will need to disable the router's DHCP server and Pi-hole as your DHCP server.