Please follow the below template, it will help us to help you! Expected Behaviour: No additional queries should be made, certainly not hundreds, if not thousands every second. Actual Behaviour: Too many queries are being made every second, when Conditional Forwarding is turned on. My router's IP i…

Alright. Now I can't open http://pi.hole

Use it's IP address. Make sure that you client got PiHole address for DNS from the router in DHCP.

On Linux and Mac client PC's, whats outcome for below one ? cat /etc/resolv.conf Or if its Windows client PC, what does the DNS section display when run below one in a CMD prompt ? ipconfig /all Like @Therion87 mentions, you want clients to query the Pi-hole IP address directly and not via your …

A restart of router and Pi solved that issue. So ASUS routers send a few DNS queries every second to check if an internet connection is active or not... After I changed the WAN DNS from my Pi's IP to 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, I noticed a downward spike in the graphs, but shortly, a spike in queries from lo…

[image] deHakkelaar: cat /etc/resolv.conf For cat /etc/resolv.conf: MacBook-Pro:~ Agneev$ cat /etc/resolv.conf macOS Notice This file is not consulted for DNS hostname resolution, address resolution, or the DNS query routing mechanism used by most processes on this system. To view the …

Yeah. [image] Therion87: I now point my WAN DNS to 1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1, and use the LAN DHCP server to assign my clients the PiHole address for DNS for blocking purposes. This stopped the flood of DNS queries. As @Therion87 suggested as a workaround, I had to point my WAN DNS towards 8.8.8.8 an…

@Therion87 posted this bit: [image] Therion87: and use the LAN DHCP server to assign my clients the PiHole address for DNS for blocking purposes. He probably configured his routers DHCP service to push the Pi-hole IP address to his clients for DNS resolution Can you post screenshots of your…

[image] deHakkelaar: He probably configured his routers DHCP service to push the Pi-hole IP address to his clients. So did I. [image] deHakkelaar: Can you post screenshots of your router’s DHCP settings ? https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmc6kh3g3qisked/Screenshot%202018-08-12%2011.30.24.png…

But the thing is that the router advertises it's own server, and there is no way to disable that unless you turn off DHCP. I do not want to use pi hole as my DHCP server. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qcjei6tn4mun5ab/Screenshot%202018-08-13%2018.36.36.png?dl=1

Too many queries made when 'Conditional Forwarding' is enabled

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deHakkelaar August 13, 2018, 12:47pm 10

The Mac has got two DNS servers configured.
This Mac will sometimes also query the not Pi-holed DNS server 10.0.0.1 resulting in the "pi.hole" name not resolving and ads leaking through.