I have a Google Nest router with single DNS pointed to my pihole (no backup DNS).
Router is configured to only give out one IP, which is piholes ip. My Pihole has DHCP enabled and hands out ip ranges that do not overlap the router and pihole. pihole ip is .250 and it hands out ips from .10 to .249. Router ip is .1
Then in my pihole config, I have a group, and in the group I have several devices with static IPs that I have assigned to the group as clients. The IPs are DCHP IP reservations via the router and not at the device level.
Then I have several black listed domains with the different regex variations. Youtube.com for example is one of them with all its different domains and variations.
Each client device is still able to access the blocked domains at what seems to me "random" times. I enable/disable the group and they are still able to access blocked domains.
nslookups on the devices all show they are going through my pihole. I have a similar setup using opendns and when using that dns it does block the domains.
Expected Behaviour:
Clients under the "kids" group should have all variations of blocked domains blocked
Your Kids group is disabled currently. In this condition, that group effectively does not exist.
*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Groups
id enabled name date_added date_modified description
---- ------- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ------------------- --------------------------------------------------
0 1 Default 2023-11-03 21:49:24 2023-12-12 01:03:31 The default group
1 0 Kids 2023-11-06 02:06:52 2023-12-28 03:37:34
Reenable that group, and from one of the clients assigned to that group (the PC would be best), and from the command prompt on that device (and not via ssh to the Pi-hole host), what are the outputs of the following:
nslookup flurry.com
nslookup youtube.com 192.168.86.250
Then, back on the Pi terminal, what are the outputs of the following: