I want a simple test that will enable me to test if the Pi-hole installation can get external lookups correctly (I am fiddling with Firewalls).
I am guessing dig is the tool, but can I force it to not pick up a cached response from Pi-hole?
You could set dnsmasq cache-size to 0 (this will prevent any caching, so best to restore it later) and restart dnsmasq (kill -HUP won't reread the config files).
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