So Long Pihole

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Youve been great until last week, then you stopped blocking ads and now, after updating, flushing, restarting everything you are blocking 0% of ads.
So i guess you cant keep up. Time to accept the wave of advertising and re-deploy the pi.
Au-revoir

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There must be a reason for it not to work.

If you don't see any ads being blocked, it might be due to a few reasons (if everything is working properly and Pi-hole has no errors).

Maybe the queries are not running through the Pi-hole DNS or maybe no lists are loaded ...

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thanks, but nothing changed, until I tried to update. It had simply stopped blocking ads and everything i browsed was loaded with ads again.
real pity, but now ive updated it there is 0 activity. pity as it has been excellent.

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There are some basic check you can perform to see if it works.

Is the DNS service running, are the adlists concatenated? Does it block locally on the pi ?

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I had to manually update the dns and reconnect the API but all now says its running, including the DNS.

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Not to sure what this means.

What's the output of sudo systemctl status dnsmasq and sudo systemctl status pihole-FTL.
Also what are the last few lines of /etc/pihole/gravity.list
if you run a nslookup on flurry.com on your pi, what's the output ?

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Send us your debug token and we can take a look.

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✓] Your debug token is: yaec3g8xee

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Ahh yes, you're on Raspbian Jessie with dnsmasq v2.72, which is unfortunately not supported.

You have a few options on things you can do:

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so I need to update from Jessie and start again?
got no issues with that.... Just cant do it now. Forgot i hadnt updated the OS for a looooong while.

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Yep, you can

  • update to stretch
  • update dnsmasq
  • downgrade Pi-hole
  • beta test FTLDNS
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awesome. project for the weekend... thanks.
Much appreciated.

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