Expected Behaviour: PiHole Should load allow the browser to load web pages almost instantly Actual Behaviour: Some times, not on ever web page, web pages load for more than 30 possibly even 60 seconds Debug Token: I have 2 Piholes running for redundancy so PiHole 1's Debug Token="fzbxextqb7" An…

It may be the typical firewall issue. If you'd be willing to participate in our current beta testing, we'd offer you an alternative blocking method you could try for this situation.

Your talking about ftldns I assume? How could that fix the issue?

Have a look at the README of the FTLDNS branch. Search for a setting called BLOCKINGMODE. Setting this to NXDOMAIN should, at least, resolve the firewall issues. Note that it'll disable the blocking page as a side effect.

I'd rather still have the blocking page as it is helpful to the other people in my household. Did you see anything in the debug log that might be useful?

I'm traveling at the moment and can only look at your debug log tonight. Just thought that this might be a quick hint for you.

What would this do with the firewall to help?

Have you taken a look here? It explains the firewall stuff in detail: [image] Why do some sites take forever to load when using Pi-hole? (for versions < v4.0) FAQs Update: 2018-08-06 As of v4.0, this should no longer be a problem unless you choose to deviate…

Yeah I have checked those 2 articles out I have notified the setupVars.config file using the script provided by the author I ran it as a executable .sh file I tried to modify the iptables but that didn't work either

[image] Crazycat36: What would this do with the firewall to help? This setting will not affect your firewall at all. It will cause FTLDNS to don't respond with the Pi-hole's IP any more but instead with NXDOMAIN. Hence, the major difference is that your clients will then not even attempt to e…

Would that mean I would lose the whole web interface also? Because I definitely don't want that.

Slow PiHole

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jacob.salmela April 27, 2018, 10:10am 8

Have you taken a look here? It explains the firewall stuff in detail: