Resolving hosts is slow, modem is making a million requests

Expected Behaviour:

Sped-up browsing/hosts resolution

Actual Behaviour:

Every site I go to, I get a slow “Resolving Host” before it connects (or doesn’t).

Some quick info:

  • I’ve got a router which handles DHCP and everything, it's at 10.0.0.1
  • It is set to use the Pi as DNS server. The Pi is at 10.0.0.101
  • I enabled Conditional Forwarding on the Pi-Hole so I could see individual devices.
  • Most of my devices have DHCP reservations on the TP-Link router.
  • I edited the hosts file on the Pi so that the main devices have names instead of just IP addresses.
  • I ran this script for whitelist (and referral-sites): GitHub - anudeepND/whitelist: A simple tool to add commonly white listed domains to your Pi-Hole setup.
  • Port 53 is closed
  • Here's my admin page screenshot

Errors:

• Error in Name resolution.

Debug log says:

[✗] Failed to resolve designiya.com via localhost (127.0.0.1)
[✗] Failed to resolve designiya.com via Pi-hole (10.0.0.101)
[✓] doubleclick.com is 216.58.219.46 via a remote, public DNS server (8.8.8.8)

• 172.91.1.106 is my external IP. My modem is going crazy and making a million requests...?

Oct 1 00:00:05 dnsmasq[14093]: 2119 172.91.1.106/40177 query[A] push.prod.netflix.com from 172.91.1.106

Debug Token:

d5ey2y5x0l

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