Pi hole not working

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Your debug log shows that your Pi is properly configured and working. However, it has seen no DNS queries from network clients. This indicates that your router and/or clients are not properly configured to use Pi-hole for DNS.

  [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M] Imported 0 queries from the long-term database
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Total DNS queries: 0
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Cached DNS queries: 0
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Forwarded DNS queries: 0
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Blocked DNS queries: 0
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Unknown DNS queries: 0
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Unique domains: 0
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Unique clients: 0
   [2022-02-14 02:41:29.665 693M]  -> Known forward destinations: 0

Your DHCP server (the router) is not distributing the IP of Pi-hole as the DNS server, so clients aren't using Pi-hole. The router is distributing Comcast DNS servers.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Discovering active DHCP servers (takes 10 seconds)
   Scanning all your interfaces for DHCP servers
   Timeout: 10 seconds
   
   * Received 330 bytes from wlan0:10.0.0.1
     Offered IP address: 10.0.0.43
     Server IP address: 10.0.0.1
     Relay-agent IP address: N/A
     BOOTP server: (empty)
     BOOTP file: (empty)
     DHCP options:
      Message type: DHCPOFFER (2)
      server-identifier: 10.0.0.1
      lease-time: 604800 ( 7d )
      renewal-time: 302400 ( 3d 12h )
      rebinding-time: 529200 ( 6d 3h )
      netmask: 255.255.255.0
      broadcast: 10.0.0.255
      router: 10.0.0.1
      domain-name: "hsd1.il.comcast.net"
      hostname: "raspberrypi"
      dns-server: 75.75.75.75
      dns-server: 75.75.76.76
      --- end of options ---
    
   DHCP packets received on interface wlan0: 1
   DHCP packets received on interface eth0: 0
   DHCP packets received on interface lo: 0

    PIHOLE_INTERFACE=wlan0
    IPV4_ADDRESS=10.0.0.43/24
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So how do I fix it?

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Hello? I really want to get this going ..

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You need to tell the router to distribute Pi-hole's IP as DNS server via DHCP. You need to consult your router manual how to do that.

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Bad news on this one (see my post in the other thread for details), but long story short, DNS settings cannot be modified on those routers.

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Thanx

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Thanx

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The phone is now using the Pihole but still not blocking ads. Someone please help.

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Comcast modems don't allow that. There's only so much you can do with them but I'm confident I can get this working if only someone would point me in the right direction.

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Does the modem allow you the reduce the DHCP range? You could limit the range to a single IP address and make a fixed DHCP assignment for your Pi host. Then enable Pi-hole's DHCP server for all other devices on your network.

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How do you determine that the phone is using Pi-hole now? Where do you see ads on the phone?

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I see that it is using Pihole now but is still not blocking ads

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It is stil not blocking ads everywhere I mean.

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Please access flurry.com from your phone and see if it appears in Pi-hole's query log as being blocked.

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Because it is listed as using Pihole

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I see ads on phone when viewing google results and trying to use Tubitv and YouTube

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Those sponsored ads right at the beginning of google results and youtube ads can't be blocked by Pi-hole. The are served from the same domain as the content. You can't block the ads without blocking google or youtube video content as well.

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Then just put the piholes ip right? Idk if I can. What else should I do?

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I tried this and I still see fricking ads.....:enraged_face::enraged_face::angry::angry:

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Idk all I see is a bunch of letters and numbers. I don't see the name of the website.