Pi-Hole does not block most ads

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Expected Behaviour:

Pi Hole should block ads.

Actual Behaviour:

A lot of ads don't get blocked. It worked before an power outage. After that I even reseted the router and the pihole, but I still get a lot of ads. It is active and it blocks some contents but only a very small part of it.

I also cant find it with nslookup

nslookup pi.hole 
Server:		127.0.0.53
Address:	127.0.0.53#53

** server can't find pi.hole: NXDOMAIN


nslookup pi.hole 192.168.178.27
Server:		192.168.178.27
Address:	192.168.178.27#53

Name:	pi.hole
Address: 192.168.178.27
Name:	pi.hole
Address: fd00::5c8d:1a26:3a2c:17d3

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/VajSrNC5/

Thank you for your help

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127/0.0.1#5335 for default unbound install, I haven't seen 127.0.0.53 for a setup, I guess it could be set to just about anything.

I haven't begun understanding hostnames linked to IP addresses and I think it makes everything more complex. I just use ip addresses and pi-hole makes it easy to check your hostname. Look around for where your hostname can be set, and try updating with

pihole up

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This device is using a loopback IP for DNS, and unless Pi-hole is running on this device, that doesn't lead to a Pi-hole.

Your debug log shows that Pi-hole is working normally, but this client isn't using Pi-hole for DNS.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Name resolution (IPv4) using a random blocked domain and a known ad-serving domain
[✓] www.vinted-pl-gj32d.hkatb.com is 0.0.0.0 on lo (127.0.0.1)
[✓] www.vinted-pl-gj32d.hkatb.com is 0.0.0.0 on wlan0 (192.168.178.27)
[✓] doubleclick.com is 142.251.36.206 via a remote, public DNS server (8.8.8.8)
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That would be in the Pi-hole configuration, not related to the nameserver being used by an individual client.

This is the nameserver being used by the device on which the nslookup was run. It's a loopback address.

This makes no sense.

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Linux hostname help:

There is also hostname and IP address information stored inside the pihole.conf or whatever the name, see pihole documentation regarding config file.

pihole can be updated (the pihole software, not debian / fedora etc)

open console and type

pihole up

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Updating Pi-hole doesn't change any of the client behavior.

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How can I change that? I use the pihole as a DNS-server in my fritzbox configuration. I followed the manual to do that and it worked previously.

I updated everything. The new token is https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/j5Vr5mvF/

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You will likely need to manually change the nameserver on that client. How you do this depends on the OS the client is running.

Your Pi-hole is working normally and receiving DNS queries from a number of clients. In the past 24 hours (or since you installed Pi-hole, whichever is less):

  [2022-08-13 19:01:51.884 1687M] Imported 8515 queries from the long-term database
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.885 1687M]  -> Total DNS queries: 8515
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.886 1687M]  -> Cached DNS queries: 1421
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.886 1687M]  -> Forwarded DNS queries: 5561
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.886 1687M]  -> Blocked DNS queries: 1397
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.886 1687M]  -> Unknown DNS queries: 1
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.886 1687M]  -> Unique domains: 1086
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.887 1687M]  -> Unique clients: 14
   [2022-08-13 19:01:51.887 1687M]  -> Known forward destinations: 4
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It doesn't work on this device even if I do that. Its a laptop running on Ubuntu 22.04. What can I do about that?

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Sorry I think it works well. I think my problem was, that many german news pages show advertising, that doesn't gets blocked with the default list.

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