# Only my router is using Pi-hole

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/only-my-router-is-using-pi-hole/34658>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 20, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/only-my-router-is-using-pi-hole/34658 "2020-06-20T04:07:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![yubiuser](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/yubiuser/32/12100_2.png) [@yubiuser](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/yubiuser)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/only-my-router-is-using-pi-hole/34658/3 "2020-06-20T09:45:46Z")

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> [@jakekaufman](#):
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> I expect to see all my devices using pihole to be listed on my network panel on the admin website.

Therefore you have to distribute pihole's IP as DNS server via DHCP. This has to be configured at your router. Once you did, you have to de/reconnect your clients to the network to pickup the new settings.

> [@jakekaufman](#):
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> noticed that I can't ping my default gateway

This indicates a network configuration erorr.

> [@jakekaufman](#):
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> Other devices are listed but have IPv6 numbers and have not made any requests

Depending on what kind of IPv6 addresses that are your router might assign global IPv6 addresss to your devices. They could use them to circumvent pihole and query another DNS server. Do you need IPv6? If not, turn it of in your router or use ULA

> [@Use IPv6 ULA addresses for Pi-hole](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/use-ipv6-ula-addresses-for-pi-hole/2127):
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> Many users have reported that frequently changing IPv6 addresses cause page load to be slow or even prevent from working at all. The issues can be fixed by updating the IPv6 address in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf followed by a run of pihole -g. However, this solution turns out to be very inconvenient since it might be necessary to change the IPv6 address on a regular basis (maybe even multiple times a day). An alternative approach we are currently looking into is the usage of ULA addresses which…

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