Expected Behaviour:
PiHole to resolve Lan hostnames on dashboard. (PiHole is the DHCP server for the network)
Actual Behaviour:
Ip addresses are being shown.
Debug Token:
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You would have to edit your /etc/hosts and specify the hostnames for the IPs.
That will start showing their names instead of IPs in the reporting.
I'm using Pihole as the DHCP server, I shouldn't need to do that.
It should resolve (and display) whatever the clients are broadcasting.
How do your clients show up under Settings/DNS and DHCP leases ?
MAC address IP and Unknown ?
Appreciate your help.
The hostnames show up correctly under settings/dhcp
Is this a recent behavior or it's been like this since day 1 ?
I'm asking because on my side, my devices that join the network and are not defined in /etc/hosts, do show up in my Query Log and Top Clients with the hostname...
This is a pretty recent development actually, everything was working just fine a few days ago.
Do you see hostnames in the DHCP settings?
Hostnames do appear there, yes.
Sorry, I didn't notice your earlier comment mentioning that. What server is in /etc/resolv.conf?
Here's the contents of resolv.conf:
search local
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1
Because Pi-hole is not using itself for DNS resolution, it is not able to look up local hostnames. Change the servers it is using to only localhost (127.0.0.1) and restart FTL: sudo service pihole-FTL restart
Looks like centos's network manager overwrites resolv.conf, so I just had to set the nameserver through that.
Thanks a lot, I couldn't have fixed it without your help.
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