Static dhcp leases in external file

yubiuser Bucking_Horn
Thank you very much for your answers!

Bucking_Horn
Thank you for you detailed explanation.

After I wrote my question I found the misc.etc_dnsmasq_d setting in the pihole.toml but not in the web interface, but could not change my post.

Kudos to the developers, even changing it in the .toml file, pihole noticed the change and added comments in the .toml

As above is calling the dnsmasq executable, that only may have worked if dnsmasq had been installed next to Pi-hole.

I guess I had dnsmasq installed then.

In my workflow I like to work with the files more than working in the web interface, so I would like to stick with misc.etc_dnsmasq_d=true.

pihole-FTL dnsmasq-test

is very helpful. Thank you again.

For me there is only one open question then: Is there also an equivalent to pihole restartdns?

For pihole reloadlists and pihole reloaddns the docs state

Note: This will NOT re-read any *.conf files

Should I open a new question/thread?

[Edit]: included information from docs about pihole reloadlists