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Expected Behaviour:
Resolve duckduckgo.com, it's my primary search engine!
Actual Behaviour:
Hey folks, I just upgraded to 5.0 this morning and everything seems to have gone smoothly except all of a sudden I can no longer reach duckduckgo.com. Instead I just get a time out error. I double checked that it wasn't accidentally added to a blacklist or anything and temporarily disabling the pihole has no effect. I have tried several different DNS servers and that also has no effect. I also confirmed that the site is up by checking it on my phone's cell connection. I didn't change anything on my router, and dnsleaktest.com confirms I am using the pihole dns server. Bizarrely even manually entering the IP address of duckduckgo.com (107.20.240.232) fails and all pings time out. Any suggestions? I would rather not have to do a clean install but I understand that it's sometimes necessary especially after a big update like this. Thanks a lot for any help! You guys rock.
Since Pi-hole is not blocking this domain, it does not appear to be a Pi-hole issue. Likely the website is down or temporarily not responding.
Note from looking at your debug log.
You have some problems in the blocklists to which you subscribe. Some are not avaialbe on the internet, some are incorrect format for Pi-hole, etc. You might want to clean up your blocklists. Run pihole -g - f and see what the output shows.
Just a few examples:
[i] Target: https://www.joewein.net/dl/bl/dom-bl-base.txt
[✓] Status: Retrieval successful
[i] Received 71376 domains, 17981 domains invalid!
Sample of invalid domains:
- 0-as69vh7k2.biz;1
- 001linker.net;1
- 0034ufow.com;1
- 00hotmlsecure.live;419
- 01aj78cz5spx-9n3.com;1
[i] Target: https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/allhosts
[✗] Status: Not found
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
[i] Target: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CHEF-KOCH/BarbBlock-filter-list/master/HOSTS.txt
[✗] Status: Not found
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
[i] Target: https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
[✗] Status: Not found
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
[i] Target: https://hosts-file.net/emd.txt
[✗] Status: Connection Refused
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
[i] Target: https://hosts-file.net/exp.txt
[✗] Status: Not found
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
[i] Target: https://hosts-file.net/grm.txt
[✗] Status: Connection Refused
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
[i] Target: https://hosts-file.net/psh.txt
[✗] Status: Not found
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
Hey thanks for your reply, I ended up getting impatient and uninstalled and reinstalled pihole then reset my blocklists (I know they're a mess) with teleporter which fixed it. Like I said above I double checked that the website was working on my cellular connection so it was definitely the pihole, I am still curious why that would happen but problem solved! Thanks again