# Pihole error is backwards

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-error-is-backwards/7381>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-error-is-backwards/7381 "2018-02-20T11:56:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![az\_stuff](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/az_stuff/32/9116_2.png) [@az\_stuff](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/az_stuff)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-error-is-backwards/7381/1 "2018-02-20T11:56:37Z")

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

## Expected Behaviour:

access to a very common, and not spammy, website is allowed

## Actual Behaviour:

not so much. out of the blue, with no input from me (I've been at work), suddenly a _very_ popular and not harmful site is blocked. but, the error message is:

Website blocked

This site has been whitelisted. Please flush your DNS cache.....

Access to the following website has been denied:

blah.com

This is primarily due to being flagged as:

Not found on any blacklist.

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OK.... so this site is being blocked, even though its been whitelisted. And the reason is being flagged is "not found on any blacklist."

WTF?

So, I manually put it on the whitelist. And its still blocked. With the same error.

## Debug Token:

j1vpvjqcn1

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**Author:** ![jacob.salmela](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/jacob.salmela/32/8_2.png) [@jacob.salmela](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/jacob.salmela)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-error-is-backwards/7381/2 "2018-02-21T02:43:25Z")

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Please see

> [@\[PSA\] Having Whitelisting issues with 3.3? Read here](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/psa-having-whitelisting-issues-with-3-3-read-here/7393):
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> 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 the admin page (whitelist page, query log, and block page) Take a look over this pull request where I've attempted to explain w…

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/3X/7/c/7c8792f649eeb921c5d2b4c41564ffa873d9a2b8.png) [@system](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-error-is-backwards/7381/3 "2018-03-14T02:43:28Z")

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