Pi Hole and Fritz Box DHCP

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Hello,

I am new in the Pi-hole community and have recently installed my first pi-hole (V6.0.3) instance. I run pi-hole in a docker container on a synology NAS server. I have a fritzbox 7530 and have added in my fritzbox the IP of the PI-hole as DNS Server. This so far, works fine and I see that all dns requests from every device in the network is rerouted to the Pi-hole.
However, in the pi-hole Web UI I only see as clients the IP from the fritzbox and not any client in the network individual.
I also want to block certain websites for certain clients like some movie sites for the kids devices I want to disable. In order to do that I need to distinguish the client.
I know, there is a DHCP server option in pi-hole which I could enable, however I do have some Port Forward in the Fritzbox from outside to internal devices which I think won't work anymore if the DHCP server is not the Fritzbox.
Is there a way that pi-hole gets the DNS requests directly instead of rerouted by the fritzbox to enable this feature or is the only solution to enable this by using pi-hole as DHCP server?

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You have configured your Fritzbox to use Pi-hole as its upstream DNS resolver.
Clients use FB for DNS, and FB forwards queries to Pi-hole.

Fritzbox routers support distributing Pi-hole as local DNS server, so clients will send their DNS queries to Pi-hole directly.

Remove Pi-hole from your Fritzbox's upstreams under Internet | Account settings | DNS.

Then configure your Fritzbox to distribute Pi-hole as DNS server via DHCP or in case you prefer German: Pi-hole als DNS Server via DHCP an Clients verteilen (LAN Seite).

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thx. Works

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One more question. If I choose to distribute the DNS via DHCP to the clients (what I did), how do I configure the upstream. I just keep it the standard for the upstream or is it necessary to still add the IP of pi.hole here as well?

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