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Expected Behaviour:
Google Play store should be working even while pihole is used since android.clients.google.com
and clients1-6.google.com are whitelisted
Actual Behaviour:
If pihole is used as the dns, the playstore complains about not having a wifi connection.
if pihole is disabled or bypassed playstore wirks
Debug Token:
us6ibcgejp
I don't have an Android device to test on, but have you tail
ed the log to determine what domain(s) may need to be whitelisted?
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Did you also make sure your cache has been flushed?
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I am fairly certain the domains i unblocked are the once used by the playstore. The only one showing up in the logs is Clients.Android.google. com though.
I flushed the cache without mich success and i restarted pihole. No luck there either.
Than i decided to run pihole -r and repair my pihole instance.
Since then, Google play works again.
Thank you
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April 5, 2018, 7:27am
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