# Pi-hole doesn't block according to dashboard
**URL:** https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-doesnt-block-according-to-dashboard/39178
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [October 8, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-doesnt-block-according-to-dashboard/39178 "2020-10-08T08:39:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Bucking\_Horn](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Bucking_Horn)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-doesnt-block-according-to-dashboard/39178/22 "2020-10-10T06:30:02Z")
> [@gil80](#):
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> What does it matter if I have adlists divided into groups
**jfb**'s analysis still applies.
By default, all clients belong to the default group, and also all adlists.
This ensures Pi-hole will be filtering all your client DNS requests through all your blocking lists.
There is no need to touch Pi-hole's group management at all.
Now, you've defined four new groups (1 through 4) in addition to the default group (0).
You have then distributed all of your adlists to one or more of your new groups.
This means there are no blocking lists for the default group anymore.
Thus, any client in the default group (which is all clients by default) will not be filtered, and that was demonstrated by your _`nslookup`_ of `flurry.com` returning IP addresses.
You'd have to assign all your adlists to the default group as well.
_You could also try to assign each of your clients to a specific group, but that comes with its own problems (changing IP addresses), and also any new clients in your network will never be filtered by default (literally)._
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### Author:  [@gil80](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/gil80)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2020, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-doesnt-block-according-to-dashboard/39178/23 "2020-10-10T06:40:44Z")
ok, so I'll remove the groups and set everything to default.
this means that I don't have to manually add clients to the clients list, if I understand correctly.
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### Author:  [@Bucking\_Horn](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Bucking_Horn)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-doesnt-block-according-to-dashboard/39178/31 "2020-10-11T10:43:55Z")
4 posts were split to a new topic: [Cloudflared vs. unbound as upstream DNS?](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/cloudflared-vs-unbound-as-upstream-dns/39292)
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### Author:  [@jfb](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jfb)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-doesnt-block-according-to-dashboard/39178/32 "2020-10-11T13:06:09Z")
That is correct. All clients not specifically assigned to other groups are in the default group.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pi-hole-doesnt-block-according-to-dashboard/39178/33 "2020-11-01T13:06:12Z")
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