show IP of clients in the client list or show the client name in the other lists where the client has a name.
it is impossible to know which client hit what block when you can’t find the clients. they are shown in the clients list with mac-address which is not used elsewhere. This is big inconsistency problem I find in the UI. It is hard to track which client got blocked or called what address.
I think the client list should at least show the IP address. mac address is least helpful here.
I think part of the problem is that the client is saved only with mac address. I checked my pihole’s database to find it out. you can’t link it to the IP anymore. you would need to do some mapping system to find it. but yeah the problem still exists. or the queries should have the mac address info and map it to show the client name.
What are you talking about exactly ?
Could you post some screenshots ?
Pi-Hole shows all Clients by IP as default and can show Hostnames when you enter them into Local DNS Records or use Conditional Forwarding so the Hostnames are queried from the Local DHCP Server which is usually your Router.
there is this clients-page with title “Client group management”. url /admin/groups/clients
where you can save clients with name. for me it always saves them with mac-address. then it shows below them with the mac-address and the given name, or it is rather with label “comment”. if you go to dashboard-page, the home page you land on, select under “Top Blocked Domains” single line from the list, then it goes to page /admin/queries for that blocked address. it shows there the client with IP. it could show the name/comment here too.(but because it is mapped with mac-address and not with IP, it is maybe not directly possible at least?) Am I missing something? Or is my settings somehow screwed up or something?
ok that solved it. I used DHCP on router and setup conditional forwarding in the pihole. thanks