Pi Hole worked for a while, not it's not

[ejstembler]

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Expected Behaviour:

Expect Pi Hole to work

Actual Behaviour:

I had it working for a while, but now it's not. Not sure why. Around the same time I uninstalled my software ad blocker, ABP, from Safari, but that shouldn't be related.

I have a Frontier (formerly Verizon) cable modem + router combo, Actiontec MI424WR Rev 1. The Pi Hole took local i.p. address 192.168.1.18 via wi-fi. Later, I plugged my Pi Hole Respberry Pi into the first ethernet port. Should I disable the wi-fi on the Raspberry Pi now that it's plugged in?

In any case, when changing my router's DHCP settings I was not sure which network connection to edit. The router web admin page lists several:

Originally, I edited the one listed as "Broadband Connection (Ethernet/Coax)":

That seems to work for a few days, but then stopped. After that, I tried applying the same DCHP settings to the network connection listed as "Network(Home/Office)". But that didn't seem to have any effect. I'm not sure which network connection I should've edited DCHP on?

Even if I many set my computer's wi-fi DNS server back to the Pi Hole's address it still isn't working.

I have no idea why it stopped working. Here's a screen-shot of the display:

Debug Token:

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[jfb]

@ejstembler

The Pi Hole took local i.p. address 192.168.1.18 via wi-fi. Later, I plugged my Pi Hole Respberry Pi into the first ethernet port.

Your debug log shows that your Pi-Hole is listening on the eth0 interface at the address below.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Networking
[✓] IPv4 address(es) bound to the eth0 interface:
   192.168.1.18/24 matches the IP found in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf

But, further down in the debug log you see that your gravity list is empty. This corresponds with your screen shot showing "Blckng: 0 domains".

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Gravity list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 24 04:50 /etc/pihole/gravity.list
   -----head of gravity.list------

   -----tail of gravity.list------

The solution is to update gravity - from the terminal pihole -g or from web admin interface (tools > update gravity). This will reload your subscribed block lists and populate the gravity list. With your subscribed blocklists, you should see about 137K domains blocked.

[ejstembler]

I did that pihole -g and it's working again now, thanks!

Just for my edification, what do you think caused the issue? Was it switching the Pi Hole from using wi-fi to ethernet? I'm just curious.

Thanks again!

[jfb]

It's hard to say. Something went wrong during the last update and the gravity list didn't get replaced.