Pi-hole showing zero clients, zero ads blocked yet pihole -t shows active connections

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Please follow the below template, it will help us to help you!

Expected Behaviour:

Pi hole should show more than zero clients connected and show connections being blocked.

Actual Behaviour:

Zero clients are listed in the web interface though pihole -t shows connections streaming live as expected, however pihole -c -j shows {"domains_being_blocked":122154,"dns_queries_today":0,"ads_blocked_today":0,"ads_percentage_today":0.000000}. This went unnoticed several weeks after running a pihole -up. Running pihole -up now shows that I'm currently up to date.

Debug Token:

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Are you running Jessie on your system? If so, please have a look at the posts I link herein. The problem is that Jessie has a too old version of dnsmasq which we cannot support any longer.

Why can't I run Pi-hole v3.3+ on Raspbian Jessie or with dnsmasq < v2.72?

Update: 2018-08-06 As of v4.0, Pi-hole ships with _FTL_DNS, our fork of dnsmasq, which should restore compatibility with Raspbian Jessie. We still recommend installing a newer OS as Jessie is EOL anyway. By default, Raspbian Jessie only supports dnsmasq v2.72, which does not work with the log-queries=extra flag, which is required for Pi-hole v3.3+. You may see error messages such as: dnsmasq: extraneous parameter at line 37 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/01-pihole.conf failed! There are two option…

Pi-hole v3.3 Released: It's "Extra" Special

Originally published at: https://pi-hole.net/2018/02/14/pi-hole-v3-3-released-its-extra-special/ Update 2018-02-20 18:05 Hi All, After a few days of pulling out our hair and troubleshooting this whitelisting issue that some of you have reported, we're finally getting to the bottom of it. The good news is, whitelisting is not completely broken. You can still whitelist domains from the cli with no issues by calling pihole -w [domain-to-whitelist]. The issue only affects whitelisting from th…

There are basically four things you can do:

How do I revert to a previous version of Pi-hole?

if you want to run a different version of Pi-hole, it is possible to install an older version. Typically, we release all three components of Pi-hole at the same time (Core, Web, and FTL), so you'll usually want to install version from the same "release." For example, we ran into some issues with v3.3 and dnsmasq compatibility with some systems, so some users needed to revert to v3.2.1 (Core and Web) but as part of the 3.2.1 "release," the latest version of FTL was 2.13.2. Because we version e…

Install a more recent dnsmasq on Raspbian Jessie

Update: 2018-08-06 As of v4.0, Pi-hole ships with _FTL_DNS, our fork of dnsmasq, which should restore compatibility with Raspbian Jessie. We still recommend installing a newer OS as Jessie is EOL anyway. Please note that this tutorial is only meant for Rasbian Jessie, although it might (to some extend) also help with similar issues on other Debian versions. Do this at your own risk (however, the likeliness of a failure is rather small in our opinion). First step: Download more recent versio…

Help Us Beta Test FTLDNS

Originally published at: https://pi-hole.net/2018/03/24/help-us-beta-test-ftldns/ In case you missed it, FTLDNS™ is Pi-hole's Faster Than Light (FTL) daemon combined with a DNS/DHCP server (our fork of dnsmasq). So instead of installing dnsmasq as a dependency, we will be distributing all services in a single binary. This will allow us to hook into dnsmasq's functionality at a code- level, as well as ensuring that you are using the latest stable version of the resolver and receive, e.g., i…

Or update your system to the most recent version (Stretch)

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I am running Stretch with Dnsmasq version 2.76.

pi@astro:~ $ lsb_release -a     
No LSB modules are available.   
Distributor ID: Raspbian        
Description:    Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)                
Release:        9.4             
Codename:       stretch         
pi@astro:~ $ dnsmasq --version
Dnsmasq version 2.76  Copyright (c) 2000-2016 Simon Kelley
Compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus i18n IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth     DNSSEC loop-detect inotify

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Dnsmasq is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or 3.
pi@astro:~ $

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Make a new debug token.

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Run pihole -r to repair. Dnsmasq wasn't configured to use the "extra" logging format, so FTL was unable to parse the log correctly.

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That seems to have fixed it! Thank you so much for your help!