Please follow the below template, it will help us to help you! Expected Behaviour: [I have followed a YouTube tutorial on installing Pi-Hole to Ubuntu server which I have done correct but when following the router instructions it does not work. The guy puts his Pi-Hole IP for the first DNS then anot…

The better way is to have your router distribute your pi-hole server ip adress as your networks dns server via dhcp. At first I made the same mistake as you describe. If you want to try out the difference, you can just manually change the dns server ip on your computer to your pihole server. If tha…

DanSchaper November 15, 2018, 8:39pm 2

Why should Pi-hole be my only DNS server? FAQs

Reduced Ad Blocking Capability The main reason you should Pi-hole as your only DNS server is that you will see increased performance in the blocking of ads. If you have two DNS servers (Pi-hole and something else), your network clients may not always query Pi-hole for name resolution. If a query happens to be answered from a non-Pi-hole DNS server, your block lists will not apply (since that DNS server doesn't know about them). All Queries Need To Go Through Pi-hole First Since other DNS serv…

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