Pihole Setup - Having Plex and Qbittorrent issues

[ruben]

Expected Behaviour:

Installed Pihole following - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBXTnrD_Zs4&list=WL&index=76
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1094810-pi-hole-setup-tutorial/
Verified on cnn.com no ads and i changed settings in my router as follows
a static IP address has been set which is the IP of raspberry Pi

Pi hole IP is listed as primary DNS and Secondary DNS is 8.8.8.8 both are optional fields

In Pi hole web interface this is empty, not sure if this is causing issues.

Installed whitelist:GitHub - anudeepND/whitelist: A simple tool to add commonly white listed domains to your Pi-Hole setup.

Actual Behaviour:

My plex server (Windows Machine) is having issues with remote access
Qbit torrent client stopped working
Radarr was having issues

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/rpWx5JGN/

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@ruben

Secondary DNS is 8.8.8.8 both are optional fields

Don't do this. Given multiple DNS Servers, clients are free to use any of them at any time.

Why should Pi-hole be my only DNS server?

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…

@ruben

In Pi hole web interface this is empty,

Which empty block is of concern?

@ruben

My plex server (Windows Machine) is having issues with remote access
Qbit torrent client stopped working
Radarr was having issues

Is Pi-hole blocking any domains from the client(s) running that software?

[ruben]

Again i am a rookie at this and understood few things while setting up.
Went ahead and removed secondary dns

the upstream dns servers on the right are empty not sure if i need to fill in the info? In pi hole dhcp settings

seeing this issue i added my plex machine IP address in Client group management so that pi hole doesnt use that machine ( am i wrong in understanding this)