Unable to access admin site, fresh install

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Expected Behaviour:

Expect to be able to access the admin site via the IP address provided after setup

  • OS, Raspberry Pi oS (64-Bit) / Mac OS
  • Raspberry Pi 5, connected via ethernet but also has wifi access. ping successfully. I'm using a mesh network? don't know if that would be an issue
  • just ran pihole -r, verified IP address via hostname -I, rebooted recently, confirmed lighttpd is up and running

Actual Behaviour:

This site can’t be reached
http://{IP}/admin** is unreachable.
ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE

Debug Token:

sXWEhRIF

Thanks for any help / guidance you can provide

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Which IP are you using exactly? Did you try http://192.168.2.51/admin ?

Also, check if there is a Firewall blocking port 80 for this IP.

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Thanks for the reply rdwebdesign

Yes, that's the IP. No firewall blocking port 80.

Oddly, it works on Safari. Tried it in desperation. Doesn't work on Firefox or Chrome, even without any extensions in it.

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Safari works but other browsers fail on the same machine?

Please open a terminal window (on the same machine), run the following commands and post here the full output:

nslookup pi.hole
nslookup pi.hole 192.168.2.51
nslookup 192.168.2.51
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I think I figured it out. It is the "Local Network" privacy setting on Mac. I had it set to off on Chrome and Firefox, it seems like it's default enabled for Safari. Once I switched it on, I could access. it.

Posting here for completeness, thanks for the response rdwebdesign

In between now and the post, I reconfigured pihole, thus the two IP addresses

hostname -I returns 192.168.2.52 192.168.2.51 fd2f:65f7:58a1:c44d:a3f8:d43:48a:7fd9 fd2f:65f7:58a1:c44d:2a81:ef7f:55ba:d2f

debug code NTa6QAdX/

nslookup pi.hole

nslookup pi.hole
Server:		192.168.2.1
Address:	192.168.2.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	pi.hole
Address: 143.244.220.150

nslookup pi.hole 192.168.2.51

Server:		192.168.2.51
Address:	192.168.2.51#53

Name:	pi.hole
Address: 192.168.2.51

nslookup 192.168.2.51

Server:		192.168.2.1
Address:	192.168.2.1#53

51.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa	name = pihole.

nslookup pi.hole 192.168.2.52

Server:		192.168.2.52
Address:	192.168.2.52#53

Name:	pi.hole
Address: 192.168.2.52

nslookup 192.168.2.52

Server:		192.168.2.1
Address:	192.168.2.1#53

** server can't find 52.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN
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The first nslookup command shows your Mac is using Pi-hole as DNS server, as expected. The other commands just confirmed.

I didn't know this specific setting exists (I don't use Mac OS).
I'm glad you found the issue and fixed it.

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