Pi-hole disconnects after few minuts

[browncracker]

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Expected Behaviour:

Pi-hole should be blocking ads while plugged in and set to primary DNS on router

Actual Behaviour:

Expected behaviour occurs for ~15 minutes, then DNS server switches to secondary and Pi-hole does not work any longer

Debug Token:

rtd49vppvm

Thank you for your help.

[DanSchaper]

Is this similar to the question asked by another user?

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[DanSchaper]

Also see this topic:

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