Pihole setup issues

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@kgoode517

If I pick up my laptop,watch on my roku,or use my iphone ads come in same as if pihole was off. When I set my pihole up as the only dns server in my rotuer shortly there after I lost the ability to make successful connections to webpages or services.

This indicates that the Pi-Hole is not receiving DNS requests from these devices and is not blocking any of their requested domains. With a second DNS in your router, clients will use that and bypass the Pi-Hole for some or all DNS requests.

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…