Expected Behaviour:
Ads should be blocked in PiHole
Actual Behaviour:
Using CNN.COM as the test, I am still seeing ads. I have rebooted the Pi device and the router.
Fairly straightforward configuration. My PiHole address is 192.168.1.24, which I have reserved for that device in my Orbi 750 mesh router.
I know less than nothing about networks
Debug Token:
https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/h1B0DtBr/
How did you configure your devices to use Pi-hole?
Did you set 192.168.1.24 in your router? or did you manually set 192.168.1.24 in each device?
In the router
Pi-hole is configured to use the reserved IP (192.168.1.24). This is fine, but this is not what I'm asking.
How did you configure the other devices to use Pi-hole. How the other devices (your computer, your phone, etc) know where to look to use Pi-hole?
This can be done on the router (pointing its DNS settings to Pi-hole) or you can manually configure each device individually, to use Pi-hole.
If you didn't configure this, read the following post:
I looked at my iPhone, for example. There was a setting to use opendns or automatic. I changed it to automatic, but I can't review that for an hour because of some bullshit apple delay for security.
Here ar the settings for that area on my router
Just looked at the configuration on my desktop and it was set for IP (automatic DHCP) and the DNS SERVER was set to Automatic.
Is that the kind of think you are referring to?
*thing
In the router setup for DNS address, it says manual assignment.
PRIMARY DNS 192.168.1.24
SECONDARY DNS blank (saw somewhere that I should either do that, or put the 192.168.1.24 in both.
Thanks for all of the help. I din't think anything I saw so far mentioned anything about changing any settings on the client end. I assumed that once it got to the router, the router would handle routing it.
I need to tap out for the evening, early doctor appointment tomorrow, but I will keep looking at the replies.
OK.
You set the DNS on the WAN/Internet configuration. This is a valid configuration.
The devices will use the router as DNS server and the router will use Pi-hole as upstream DNS server. The only downside is the router will be the only device showing in Pi-hole query log, but some routers doesn't support a different configuration.
Now we need to know why ads are not blocked.
Did you check if your browser is using "Secure DNS"? You need to disable this option on your browser to avoid bypassing Pi-hole.
I will check into that. Do apps like AdGuard and AdBlock cause an iPhone to bypass PiHole on a device? What about similar browser extensions for computers and laptops?
I do seem to have everything working OK now thanks to the suggestion about secure DNS.
Do either browser based or device based adblockers on my iPhone cause Pi-Hole to be bypassed? I would like to leave then enabled for when I am using them away from my home network if they don’t create a problem when I am on my home network. Thanks!
Only if they use a different DNS server (unlikely).
Most browser adblockers will block/remove requests before the browser request the domain, so Pi-hole will never know something was blocked. They will do their jobs and block ads. You don't need to disable them.
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