Expected Behaviour: [I don’t want to setup pihole as my DNS server on my router because everyone in my household does not want to use it. So I’m configuring each devices manual to use pihole as DNS. ] Actual Behaviour: [The problem is that all wired devices get all ads blocked. But the wireless de…

This is typically a problem in the router, which is handing out different DNS to wired and wireless clients. Your debug log shows that Pi-Hole is working normally.

So I must set pihole as dns server to get It to work. Is their now way solving this without setting pihole as dns on router?

[image] alxndr: So I must set pihole as dns server to get It to work. Pi-Hole must be the DNS server in order for it to block domains. [image] alxndr: Is their now way solving this without setting pihole as dns on router? You can try using Pi-Hole as DHCP, but this will likely not sol…

The problem is that everyone in my house hold don’t want to use pihole dns. So my only way was by not changing any router setting. But I believe this might be the only way. I’m using edgerouterx so my only ide was setting up two different dhcp servers and make all my devices use the other one. Then …

Even if you use the Pi-Hole as DHCP, you can exclude clients by MAC address. In this case, you would exclude the clients that don't want to use Pi-Hole, and give them a different DNS server. This is done using a dnsmasq configuration file. [image] Things you can do with dn…

Pihole only blocks on wired connection

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jfb September 28, 2019, 1:22am 4

Pi-Hole must be the DNS server in order for it to block domains.

You can try using Pi-Hole as DHCP, but this will likely not solve the wireless client problem.