The issue I am facing:
ASKING ONLY.
When I go to my logs - don't do it often.
Torn between that is ok and being paranoid and checking them constantly.
PiHole is NOT the DHCP server.
Looking at my logs all/most machines show their names rather than their IP address.
I have an NVIDIA shield (media player) and when it is used I see its IP address and not its name.
I accept it could be it is dumb but why are other devices honoring their assigned names I set in the DHCP server?
Details about my system:
Multi VLAN network.
The Media player is on a separate VLAN to most other machines.
DHCP is done by a Ubiquity Edge router.
What I have changed since installing Pi-hole:
As stated, I am just curious why I am not seeing the NAME but am seeing the IP address instead.
Have I missed any needed information?
(Sorry very low level user and I try to leave well enough alone.
If it isn't broken....... sort of thing. And AFAIK, it isn't broken.)
And please upload a debug log and post just the token URL that is generated after the log is uploaded by running the following command from the Pi-hole host terminal:
Oh, IP number:
I have the DHCP server set to assign the same IP address to it, so I would hope that is happening.
Annoying that when I click the upload button and scan for the LOG file, those kind of files are NOT shown and so I have to rename it.
When it was being made I did also see a bit of red text - problems?
I'll look at the file myself, but if you notice anything else of concern, please let me know.
For your own privacy and security, do not post your debug log publically.
We've been through this a few times with you already:
We would require only the debug token as shown at the end of the process when you allow uploading:
Enabling Pi-hole's Conditional Forwarding should address your issue.
As you have multiple subnets (due to VLANs), you may not be able to fully configure that through Pi-hole's UI alone.
Nevertheless, give the following settings a try: 192.168.0.0/16 - 192.168.17.1 - Marys-Farm
That would cover different 192.168.x.x networks, but not others like 10.0.0.0, and obviously, it also wouldn't cover different domain names for your different VLANs.
Alternatively, you could try to configure your router as Pi-hole's only upstream.
You'd also want to untick Never forward reverse lookups for private IP ranges in Pi-hole's DNS settings for that to work, and probably untick Never forward non-FQDN A and AAAA queries as well.
Don't I already?
(Yes, I know I should know.)
I have (not that recently) done a bit of network restructure.
But to the best of my knowledge I thought the router is the uplink address.
(Though there is a managed switch between them.)
Arching back to the first bit:
192.168.0.0/16 - 192.168.17.1 - Marys-Farm
Sorry, lost me.
Just saw the edit come up.
I'll post this to not get too confused.
DNS servers. (I can't don't (see?) always parse things as they are meant.)
But.....
(Confused)
I have some VLANS - as I am sure you can see - and their DNS is the router because I can't put PiHole's IP as their DNS as it is in/on a different network. (All but one)
So the router is needed - as it has access to all VLANs.
Forgive my ignorance.
