I have PiHole installed on my Raspberry Pi that is hooked up to my network. As long as I'm using the Raspberry Pi browsing the internet/watching videos, it blocks all of the ads just fine, and I can see what's getting blocked in the PiHole Admin panel. So everything is 100% working on the Pi.
However, I have two other desktop computers that I want to use PiHole on. I went on to the first PC and went to Network > Adapter Settings and specified the new DNS to use instead of obtaining automatically (192.168.1.77) - This IP address takes me to the PiHole Admin Panel. Anyways, when I save the changes on the computer and try browsing the internet WITH the PiHole Admin panel open off to the side and it doesn't block anything, and you can see there is no traffic when monitoring it all through the Admin Panel for the PiHole. Then go back to the Raspberry Pi and browse and the activity picks back up again. Something isn't set correctly on this PC and I'm not sure what...
Did I do this right? Is this all that's supposed to be done? Thanks for the help everyone.. I really appreciate it.
If you plan on using your Pi-hole for all of the devices on your local network, then you should configure the Pi-hole as your primary DNS server in your network router, instead of doing so for each device.
If you intended to only use Pi-hole with a select number of devices, you can certainly do so at each device by configuring each device to use ONLY the Pi-hole for DNS. However, your local router's DNS settings may still be a factor, if any of these devices are still configured as DHCP clients and getting their IP address from the router AND that router is offering DNS servers other than the Pi-hole.
Thanks for the reply... Okay, so just simply login to my router and change the settings to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 since I'm using the cloudflare dns.. Then it'll be network wide, correct?
Doing so would negate the use of your Pi-hole. Again, it depends on your goal with using the Pi-hole. If you want it to provide ad-blocking for all of your devices on your local network, the it must be your ONLY DNS forwarding server. That is, you would identify Cloudflare servers in the Pi-hole as the upstream servers, but reconfigure your router to ONLY point to the Pi-hole's IP address. Do not add any additional DNS servers in the router's configuration.
You need to go into your router settings and give the pi a static IP or your DNS requests will go nowhere if it gets reassigned on reboot. After you have it set to a static internal IP you can then either configure each device or set your router to point all DNS requests to your pihole.
