Switching from Pihole to Openwrt as dhcp server, but have names still appear in pihole

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Before I commit I just want to be sure I have this right

I’d like to switch my DHCP server to Openwrt, but have the individual device names still appear in Pihole

All I have to do is enable conditional forwarding in Pihole to Openwrt, correct?

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That would depend on how you've configured DNS in OpenWRT.

CF wouldn't be useful if OpenWrt is configured to use Pi-hole as its upstream DNS server, as all DNS requests would originate from OpenWrt in that case.

If your OpenWrt DHCP server would distribute Pi-hole as local DNS server, then clients would take to Pi-hole for DNS (instead of your OpenWrt router), so Pi-hole could attribute DNS traffic to individual client IPs, and CF would allow to associate those IPs with hostnames as known by your OpenWrt.

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Thanks for the feedback

I believe “6, 192.168.1.9” will work as the DNS entry for Openwrt then. Will try it out shortly. Thanks!

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