Installed PiHole on a raspi with a TP-Link router and changed DNS entry for DHCP client. Everything worked fine and I got the top client statistics. Now I 'upgraded' the router to a Netgear R6700 with DD-WRT 3.0 since I also need a VPN client on the router. DD-WRT is using DNSMasq for DNS and DHCP…

Disable Dnsmasq for DNS on the router. That might cause it to internally forward all client DNS requests.

jacob.salmela July 19, 2017, 2:12am 14

How do I show hostnames instead of IP addresses in the dashboard? FAQs

There are two ways to accomplish this: use Pi-hole's built in DHCP server use your router's DHCP server and modify /etc/hosts on your Pi-hole machine Use Pi-hole's DHCP server When you enable Pi-hole's DHCP server, you have the option to assign DHCP reservations and pair them with a hostname. Just make a reservation for every device on your network. [image] Edit /etc/hosts on your Pi-hole The other option is useful if you want to keep your existing DHCP server (usually your router) and ju…

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SOLVED: DD-WRT - DNS issue