Router cause "Rate Limit" Warning

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Your new router may be routing DNS queries through itself. If this is the case, all your DNS queries to Pi-hole will appear to originate from the router, and this can drive a rate limit to be exceeded.

Why do I only see my router's IP address instead of individual devices in the Top Clients section and Query Log?

A nice feature of Pi-hole is that you can see which network devices are sending out the most DNS queries. For every device that is using Pi-hole as their DNS server, you can also see which DNS queries each one has made. [image] But depending on a few things, you may only see a single host in your Top Clients section, which is not as useful. [image] This isn't detrimental to the performance of your Pi-hole; it just provides you with less insight into what's happening on your network. So w…

You can check and see which IP's on your LAN are making the most queries:

echo ">top-clients withzero (15) >quit" | nc localhost 4711

You can also change your rate limit if needed.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/configfile/#rate_limit