Pi-hole and ddwrt settings

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I think the most general and "best" method on DD-WRT is to:
Services>services>Additional DNSMasq Options:
dhcp-option=6,192.168.1.250

No other changes on DD-WRT are needed. Substitute the IP of your pi-hole for the 192.168.1.250 above. Why do it this way? 3 reasons:

  1. Per-host tracking on Pi-hole (i.e. logging of DNS requests tied to individual machines by their respective hostnames).
  2. The ability to resolve hostnames on the LAN.
  3. Ad blocking/network monitoring provided by Pi-hole.
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