It should show all Currently active DHCP leases on the admin webpage but does not.
I changes some host clients lease times from “infinite” to “1w” - now these clients and their respective leases do not show up on the admin web page. I restarted the pi-hole but it did not make a difference.
24 hours is the default and not "infinite".
Why do you deviate from the default?
Did you try rebooting those clients that might still hold on to a lease with an infinite lease time?
EDIT: Oops my mistake, it seems the default has changed:
If no lease time is specified (empty),
dnsmasq's default lease time is one hour for IPv4 and one day for IPv6.
But still, why do you want to change this?
I have a lot of my devices IP addresses set via DHCP on the Pi-Hole. They don’t change so they can keep their IP addresses. A lot are IOT devices that are only powered on for a short time and then powered off, I want to keep their lease to save on battery resources.
By the way:
This all worked well until I updated from version 6.1.3 to 6.2.2
Bananas.
But you forgot to answer one question?
I did reboot the clients but they still do not show up.
If you tail/follow the logs live with below, and reboot one of those clients, do you see an entry being logged with the client IP, MAC & hostname?
sudo tail -F /var/log/pihole/pihole.log | grep DHCPACK
And if you do, does it appear in below file?
sudo cat /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases
You can also run below to live tail/follow the DHCP log entries in general:
sudo tail -F /var/log/pihole/pihole.log | grep dnsmasq-dhcp
Usually you see below for a full DHCP exchange:
EDIT: Oh you did notice below one do you?
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