# \[SOLVED\] Pi-hole on Amazon EC2 not filtering ads

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**Created:** [July 24, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/solved-pi-hole-on-amazon-ec2-not-filtering-ads/11111 "2018-07-24T07:18:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Egidio](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@Egidio](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Egidio)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/solved-pi-hole-on-amazon-ec2-not-filtering-ads/11111/12 "2018-07-25T18:06:42Z")

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I just found out that my Vodafone router had an option enabled called Safe DNS which prevent usage of custom DNS servers. I disabled it and now I see Pi-hole logging queries. It's still not blocking ads though ☹

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