Not Blocking Amazon ad on Pages to Test Ad Blocking Performance

[jacob.salmela]

@Magura

What I see on the Pi-hole are IPv6 domains being forwarded even though the domain is successfuly blocked as IPv4.

@Magura

Second, I think part of my confusion here is that the IPv6 domain is probably not really forwarded by Pi-hole even though the query log shows it as so

Are you possibly running into this?

Why do blacklisted domains show IPv4 as "Pi-holed" but not IPv6 in the query log?

This behavior can be fixed by setting AAAA_QUERY_ANALYSIS=no in /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf (you need to create this file if it doesn't exist). If you still see blacklisted IPv6 domains show as forwarded in your query log but don't have IPv6 enabled, you may see a false positive like the image below, where the IPv4 version of the domain is blocked, but not the IPv6 version. root@pihole:~ $ cat /etc/pihole/gravity.list | grep edge.quantserve.com 192.168.1.126 edge.quantserve.com [image] I…

@Magura

In fact, its still confusing to me how the Pi-hole sees IPv6 queries because I can’t even point my router to the Pi-hole using IPv6.

Queries for AAAA records can still happen as it's not actually using the IPv6 protocol, it's just using DNS and looking for the AAAA record.

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if you have disabled IPv6 on your network, this is expected then since there is no valid address to use.

@Magura

After this I ended up editing my dhcpcd.conf to set a static IPv6 address for the Pi-hole.

It looks like a ULA address, so that should work.

@Magura

If you have any feedback on doing this and if it is worthless/worthwhile or should be handled different I’d be interested in hearing it.

Perhaps I read wrong, but I thought you had intentionally wanted to disable IPv6 on your network, but now you have it enabled? In any case, if it's blocking the ads I assume that's the behavior you want, so good to go there.