ok deleted the file, started pihole again and now can flush the network thingy. but it still doesn't seem to show any hostnames in the query log other than pi.hole 
https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/y96lkYQ5/
Okay, Pi-hole is trying to find the host names but there's a configuration that is preventing it from happening.
Feb 15 19:10:57 dnsmasq[478]: query[PTR] 169.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa from 127.0.0.1
Feb 15 19:10:57 dnsmasq[478]: config 192.168.0.169 is NXDOMAIN
What does http://pi.hole/admin/settings.php?tab=dns look like for configurations?
custom dns 1 = 192.168.0.254#5335
all interfaces
everything ticked except conditional forwarding
ah! ok its working now. but doesn't seem to be caring about a schedule. the hostnames are showing in the query log immediately. is that normal?
thank you Dan!
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Yes, everything is normal. There will be re-queries once an hour to check and make sure things haven't changed or to update the things that have. I don't recall offhand if they show in the query log though.
Is everything working correctly now?
And thank you for showing me the extra configuration items I need to cover in the next blog post, I would have forgotten about the Never Forwards needing to be cleared.
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yeah, things seem to be fine now. apart from a bunch of weird things in the top lists/logs such as .org .com co.uk , but i guess that's to do with the fact that unbound is now acting as the recursive dns server?
is there a way of doing this without so many dns servers on the network? I've been noticing that my dnsmasq service on my opnsense dies every day or so.... stops resolving. and i have to restart the dnsmasq service to kick it back into line. (nothing much in the logs of interest tbh)
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