when a static lease is set in the DHCP portion of the admin page should be possible to write the lease to /etc/hosts as well allowing for simple adding of hostnames

You can already set hostnames with the static leases, or am I misinterpreting your request? [image]

Will test when I get home but to my knowledge this did not bring the hostnames into the webgui instead of ip's this feature request was based off of a troubleshooting thread from Reddit that I will link when not on mobile

Make sure you disable your router's DHCP if you use Pi-hole's otherwise clients might get an address from one or the other. [image] How do I use Pi-hole's built in DHCP server (and why would I want to)? FAQs Using Your Existing Router For Network-wide Ad Block…

I do not have this issue personally I just edit the hosts file myself

The hosts file is intended to be used by the own host itself and not to be shared by other hosts. The hosts file may contain entries like for example below one: 127.0.1.1 pihole.your.domain Lets assume a second system tries to connect to "pihole.your.domain" reading from that same hosts file,…

[image] technicalpyro: simple adding of hostnames Implemented in v5.0 with "Local DNS Records" [image] technicalpyro: but to my knowledge this did not bring the hostnames into the webgui instead of ip’ Also implemented.

Pihole DHCP writes to hosts file as well

Feature Requests Implemented

jacob.salmela May 19, 2017, 2:36am 4

Make sure you disable your router's DHCP if you use Pi-hole's otherwise clients might get an address from one or the other.