Unable to get working on xwrt vortext

[inverse]

I've got pi-hole running on hass.io via the addon functionality. See addon-pi-hole/README.md at v2.0.4 · hassio-addons/addon-pi-hole · GitHub

And I'm using xwrt vortext running on a Netgear R7000.

I followed the instructions to point pi-hole to the DNS server of the R7000's IP exclusively.

and on the router it looks like:

Having also applied the custom dnsmasq rule on the router of

dhcp-option=6,192.168.1.77

Where that IP is the IP of the PI.

Expected Behaviour:

Working ad-blocking

Actual Behaviour:

Non-functional ad-blocking.

Debug Token: 6w1jriubi3

[RamSet]

How is the client looking from a DHCP perspective?

Does it get all the correct settings?

(Should get an IP like 192.168.1.* with gateway 192.168.1.1 and (sole) DNS 192.168.1.77).

[inverse]

How can I check? The output of /etc/resolv.conf is

# Generated by NetworkManager
search beachi
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1

and my IP looks correct.

update

I followed the directions of pointing the dns to the pi-hole and configuring the advanced dns resolution setting for host name validation and it appears to work . I dont get host names, but get local domain resolution but I can live without that.