PiHole has suddenly stopped blocking ads

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Expected Behaviour:

PiHole installed on Raspberry Pi 3 used to work just fine and was blocking all ads.

Actual Behaviour:

Suddently stopped blocking ads...

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/RG5m4P1t/

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I suspect your router is providing the DNS and DHCP. You need to either disable DHCP on the router and enable pihole's DHCP or edit the DNS server settings in the router to be 192.168.0.106, which would then show up on the Windows machine as that address. Or, manually set the DNS on the Windows machine or any other machine you want to ad block to that address.

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The thing is that it was working fine and nothing was changed. Also DHCP has already been disabled on the router.

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What does it show in Status/System Information on the router? What happens when you set the DNS manually on the Windows device?

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Router status:

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When setting manually the DNS the ads keep popping up:
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Quite the mystery, especially with the manual setting. Hope a developer can diagnose something in the debug log. Good luck.

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Your debug shows that you have no adlists, thus no blocking.

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Oh, that makes sense. Any idea how to fix that?

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Go to group management and add adlists.

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