Pi wont return queries from router

[jasvijay]

Hi Guys,

Expected Behaviour:

My Setup is ubuntu 18.04 on a VM running off Xenserver

Actual Behaviour:

Pi-hole is returning queries if i use the machine's ip directly as DNS but if i point my router's dns to it then it refuses query.

C:\Users\Jasvijay>nslookup
Default Server:  Pi-Hole
Address:  192.168.2.1

> google.com
Server:  Pi-Hole
Address:  192.168.2.1

*** Pi-Hole can't find google.com: Query refused

exit

C:\Users\Jasvijay>nslookup google.com 192.168.2.80
Server:  Pi-Hole
Address:  192.168.2.80

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    google.com
Addresses:  2607:f8b0:400b:809::200e
          172.217.164.206

My Router's dns is currently 192.168.2.80

[N_4]

can you send a debug token

[jasvijay]

Debug log removed by moderator and made private.

Debug report added, thank you for quick reply.

[jfb]

When you upload a debug log, we only need the token posted. This allows selected members of the Pi-hole team to access your Pi-hole log, and only for 48 hours. This protects your privacy, as the debug log may have personal information in it (email address, browsing history, etc.).

[jfb]

Your debug log is normal. The 24 hour history shows only 71 queries from 3 clients, so it appears that the router is configured incorrectly to send DNS requests to Pi-hole or to provide the Pi-hole IP as DNS server in the DHCP handshake with clients. Or perhaps the VM is not configured to pass this port 53 traffic to Pi-hole.

From the same windows clients, from the command prompt or terminal on that client (and not via ssh or Putty to the Pi), what is the output of

nslookup pi.hole

[jasvijay]

so, instead of figuring this out i disabled dhcp on my router and created a dhcp server along with pi hole and pointed the default dns as its ip, fixed all issues thank you

[Coro]

@jasvijay

created a dhcp server along with pi hole

Are you aware that Pi-hole has a powerful embedded DHCP server that will also ensure host names are available on the network, etc., itself?