Hi forum I am experiencing some strange behavior from my pi-hole recently. I am seeing a lot of DNS request coming from my wireless access point (OpenWrt). Looking at the traffic I am very sure that it is actually coming from my iPhone, still in the dashboard the IP of my WAP is shown as client IP…

I'm guessing this could happen if your iPhone and other WiFi devices are told to use the WAP for DNS and the WAP uses Pi-hole for DNS. The iPhone DNS request would not be passed to Pi-hole directly.

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jfb October 17, 2023, 12:32pm 3

Why do I only see my router's IP address instead of individual devices in the Top Clients section and Query Log? FAQs

A nice feature of Pi-hole is that you can see which network devices are sending out the most DNS queries. For every device that is using Pi-hole as their DNS server, you can also see which DNS queries each one has made. [image] But depending on a few things, you may only see a single host in your Top Clients section, which is not as useful. [image] This isn't detrimental to the performance of your Pi-hole; it just provides you with less insight into what's happening on your network. So w…

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