@DanSchaper, thanks for the response. Yes, I am able to ping the servers. I am also able to actually browse to some sites like google, did a search for dns amazon.com got the IP from the site and was able to ping that as well.
The latency is normal for me, it's always around 180-240.
root@pihole:/# ping -c 3 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=199 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=199 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=198 ms
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 198.954/199.026/199.066/0.517 ms
root@pihole:/# ping -c 3 1.1.1.1
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=199 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=203 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=199 ms
--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 199.099/200.737/203.298/1.834 ms
That would indicate the problem is with the network. Possibly a firewall or something blocking the traffic. There is nothing that involves Pi-hole for a dig to an external DNS IP.
This was not a Pi-hole issue but a VPN issue. My traffic runs through an ExpressVPN which normally doesn't have any issues but I got the bright idea of switching VPN endpoints and that solved my issues. I haven't see Express VPN mess with my traffic in the past but something is surely going on with that endpoint.
Thank you for your troubleshooting! Everything is working perfectly now... I'm sure that Pi-hole was always performing as expected.
I am having similar issues. I read through this thread and kinda got some ideas but still confused and non working amazon. I really want to keep using Pihole but dont know how to get amazon back on. I am also using VPN and I tried turning it off or disabling Pihole nothing works. This problem started happening since I installed Pihole so something can be related. Thanks.