AT&T router setup with port forwarding to my Asus RT-N66U that has installed TomatoUSB shibby.
Pihole is running on a docker in my raspberry pi.
I have pihole up and running and I followed the instructions here and here which are conflicting.
Currently these are my settings. I think this is not working bc the DNS servers that are used the 192.168.2.42 is my raspberry pi while the 192.168.1.254 is my AT&T router. If i remove the automatic and only use static DNS and leave the raspberry pi then it doesn't work as in i can't get to the internet.
Can anyone help? I have now moved pihole to an unraid server with its own IP. I was able to ping inside my unRAID server, and now i get a system error when I try to ping inside my unRAID server. I am not sure what is happening. I can't even download any plugins or dockers. I am just so confused on what is happening with this PiHole. I know it has to be something with this given that If i don't have PiHole then it all works but with PiHole it doesn't work.
Thank you so very much for the suggestions. I will go and try them when I get home!
I have changed my setup since these screenshots so here it is. I recently changed PiHole to run on unRAID server as it is much faster than a Pi.
From the top:
Basic > Network > WAN Settings > DNS Server
I have 'Manual' and I have my PiHole IP twice (192.168.2.254)
Question: Does it make a difference having my address twice?
If I use Auto i notice that my DNS switches to still have my Pihole IP first and my AT&T IP (192.168.1.254) second
Question: Why does this happen? Do you know?
Second Screenshot:
All the checkboxes are as is except I do not have populated the Dnsmasq custom configuration box
Question: Why do I have to have this? I never understood it.
If I would fill the 'Dnsmasq custom configuration' box I would now have it set to 'dhcp-option=6,192.168.2.254' instead of the .42 as that is the old Pi's IP address.
Third Screenshot:
I have is selected Cloudflare and Google selected.
I no longer have unbound installed, so I do not have my gateway (router) IP (192.168.2.1) setup anymore under Custom 1
At the bottom i have my router IP setup (192.168.2.1) and 'home.network' as the domain name so that I can get my domain names resolved instead of just having IP addresses. I actually think I need to have something checked down there but as I am recalling this all from memory I can't remember what that checkbox is and I can't see it visually on the last screenshot.
Now based on your suggestions I have some questions:
The configuration of your PiHole is fine by placing the IP of your router.
Do you mean i leave my router ip of 192.168.2.1 in the Custom 1 field?
Now on your router in the Netwurk> Basic> DNS Server section place those of CloudFlare, Google, etc.
Do you mean the router or on the pihole settings? I'm confused as i thought you need to have manual on the WAN Settings (since Tomato doesn't have a DNS setting for LAN or at least I can't find it) AND you put your PiHole IP?
You have it setup as you mention above and it all works? It is not slow at all?
Ok, I got everything set up and working. Had to restart some machines for everything to take effect, but it’s running and working well.
Here are the settings I ended up using – seems obvious now that I solved the other issue, but this may help someone else get set up quickly, so here we go:
