Pihole not blocking

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Expected Behaviour:

pihole in a domain with 2012dc and pfsense (client->dc(forwarder)->pihole->pfsense)

Actual Behaviour:

Pihole doens't actually seem to be blocking anything, tried updating the list and I get the following:

[✗] DNS resolution is currently unavailable

No clients seem to be connected to it, dashboard doesn't show any queries etc....I suspect the issue might be with either the dc forwarding or the pfsense router....not sure though does everything look ok with the installation?

Debug Token:

p4vsi8iykp

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What is the output of these commands?

tail /var/log/pihole.log
sudo service dnsmasq status

For the "DNS resolution is currently unavailable" issue, see these issues:
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/1801
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/1806

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Hello Mcat12,

Thanks for replying, this is the output of that command:

output
output803×274 7.22 KB

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How about the output of this command?

tail /var/log/pihole.log
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Returns nothing

out2put
out2put634×121 2.59 KB

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Run sudo service dnsmasq restart and then run that tail command again.

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This was returned:

out3put
out3put805×232 6.78 KB

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That looks normal. It's reading 106,009 domains from gravity.list. However, looking at your log, you seem to be running named, which will conflict with Pi-hole since they are both working with DNS. Please try disabled named and then see what happens.

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After running sudo bind9 disable it seems that the problem is resolved. PiHole is now querying and blocking ads as expected!

Thank you so much for the assistance jacob.salmela and Mcat12