It is.
He just saying that if he manually configs (aka, in Windows as a 'Custom Setup') Windows to point to the pi-hole, after trying to use DHCP to assign it, it is still not using it.
Some of my devices are manually configured with static addresses and DNS assigned and some use DHCP and both ways work fine.
If you are going to install Bullseye, as I suggested
and bydeHakkelaar, there is a new version Raspberry Pi Imager v1.7.1. to use to write the card.
People have mixed results trying to command line to upgrade; I was told this by a mod that had mixed results. Not to mention if this is just something went sideways, a new install may be easier than all this.
And I also suggested a RTC. But that will take soldering and for you to Dremel tool about space for it in its case. Well, maybe not need to cut a hole for it: this looks like it is deep enough to sit on top: https://www.amazon.com/Adafruit-4282-PiRTC-Precise-Raspberry/dp/B07W6Y4P99/ref=sr_1_5?crid=33PO0M2P2293G&keywords=pi+zero+RTC&qid=1645818864&sprefix=pi+zero+rtc%2Caps%2C124&sr=8-5
Then it is okay to use the 64bit version on your Pi zero 2 w; I use Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Not full, not lite; I just find it easier to use a monitor than SSH in. The 64bit versions are at the bottom of 'Raspberry Pi OS (other)
And this time, either stick with WiFi or start out wired. WiFi works fine and you do not need to unplug it from the router every time you finish.
It is just that I see a some things lost in translation e.g. below there is a misunderstanding by deHakkelaar about configuring a windows device to use Pi-hole DNS lookup and configuring another device too to use, I presume a Windows device, for DNS lookup.
I think the misunderstanding is on your side:
We don't know that yet for sure.
deHakkelaar pointed out that necessity and also provided the commands to verify that statement in order to help OP.
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I have conflated this thread with another.
Sorry, I did mean all those are set up when Raspian was installed.
And by settle in I mean when I set up Bullseye it just would not come off GMT for minutes; even though every time I looked, under settings it was all correct. It took so long I even tried a reboot but about 7 minutes later it, finally, displayed local time in the taskbar.
I don't have access to my RPi right now, will try some things after the weekend
This fixed my Unbound issuess. It is now working without problems.
I still can't get my router's traffic to go through pi-hole. My routers DNS settings: [Wireless Router] How to configure Router to use Pi-Hole?
Even changing both DNS server 1 and 2 to the Pi-hole's adress doesn't change anything.
I have no clue why it isn't working, seems like the final step to fixing my problems 
Edit:
Results:
netsh interface ip show dnsservers
... 89.101.251.228
nslookup pi.hole
Server: dns.mnd.iss.as9143.net
Address: 2001:b88:1002::10
*** dns.mnd.iss.as9143.net can't find pi.hole: Non-existent domain
Above DNS IP is not Pi-hole or running through Pi-hole:
pi@ph5b:~ $ dig +short -x 89.101.251.228
089-101-251228.ntlworld.ie.
And I should have supplied you also with the IPv6 version for that command:
netsh interface ipv6 show dnsservers
And above one is also not Pi-holed.
The nslookup should have returned either the IP for your Asus router (in the "Server Address" field) or the IP for the Pi-hole host for proper blocking.
Also the "Name Address" reply would then be the IP for the Pi-hole host like below example:
C:\>nslookup pi.hole
Server: ph5a.home.dehakkelaar.nl
Address: 10.0.0.2
Name: pi.hole
Address: 10.0.0.2
Asus routers are a bit tricky to configure as can be seen from below thread:
I also run an Asus router and decided to disable IPv6 support for the LAN side (dont need it anyway and complicates allot),
and disabled the DHCPv4 service on the Asus so that Pi-hole can take over:
A recent firmware version has severly limited the amount of settings I can change:
I cannot disable DHCPv4 nor IPv6 using the web-gui.
SSH is available on this router so I can try using that but haven't been able to find a solid guide on how to disable those settings. Do you have any experience with this?
Another option might be to install an older firmware version to change the settings and upgrade. But I don't know if the settings would stay after upgrading.
Aha I see.
Below the settings I have available:
That limits your options considerably.
Basically with the current setup, your only able to make use of Pi-hole if you configured DSN manually on each and every device which is not desired.
Only options I can think of besides downgrading is flashing the Asus with a custom made firmware like for example Asuswrt-Merlin or OpenWRT.
Quick search for supported devices and the RT-AC1200 model is not on the list for Asuswrt-Merlin.
OpenWRT does seem to support your RT-AC1200 model (not sure though, ask support forum!!!) :
pi@ph5b:~ $ curl -sSL https://openwrt.org/_media/toh_dump_tab_separated.gz | zgrep --binary-files=text -i RT-AC1200
15676602 WiFi Router ASUS RT-AC57U v1 NULL Available 2019 amazon.de, amazon.co.uk, reichelt.de https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=14e0e4f138e35c3e2a15cc3a836c939547ee053b 19.07.0 21.02.2 NULL ramips mt7621 mipsel_24kc U-Boot MediaTek MT7621AT 2 880 16 128 - 5 MediaTek MT7621AT Yes - MediaTek MT7612EN b/g/n a/n/ac mt76 - - 1x 2.0 - -- - Yes 57600 / 8N1 ▒ 9 2 - 12 VDC, 2.0 A toh:asus:rt-ac57u View/Edit data NULL NULL RT-AC57U RT-AC57U https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ASUS_RT-AC57U https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC57U/ https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC57U/HelpDesk_BIOS/ NULL https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/21.02.2/targets/ramips/mt7621/openwrt-21.02.2-ramips-mt7621-asus_rt-ac57u-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin NULL https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ramips/mt7621/openwrt-ramips-mt7621-asus_rt-ac57u-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin U-Boot TFTP recovery U-Boot TFTP recovery media:example:genericrouter1.png RT-AC57U v1 is a rebadged RT-AC1200GU
RT-AC57U v1 is a rebadged RT-AC1200GU
But this is not without risks bc if something goes wrong while flashing, it could potentially brick your router permanently!!!
The other option is getting another router.
Ow ps. I've read a posting somewhere before explaining steps to change DNS via SSH but cant find it anymore.
Closest I could find was below and am not sure it will work for your Asus:
The RT-AC1200GU ( RT-AC57U) and RT-AC1200 V2 have a different SoC: ASUS RT-AC1200 series
Seems like to big of a risk to try to install OpenWrt on the router.
I'll see if SSH might work, saw that forum post as well!
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You can use ASUS-Merlin or DD-WRT for more control.
Merlin is the least likely to brick. https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/
Your router uses Broadcom chips. Not supported by OpenWRT. Do not try that.
I have fixed my problems!
The issue was that I was using my router in AP mode, which gave me limited settings.
I had it set up this way because I couldn't get a wifi connection unless I used AP mode.
I learned some stuff along the way and now I have bridged my modem so only my Asus router has router capabilities and I was able to change my DNS settings properly and now it works
Everything is running smoothly and it's blocking around 20% of the querries, I do however still get ads on YouTube. Are there any ways I can improve my ad-blocking?
The pi-hole is my only DNS-server, but it's not a DHCP server, I can change that but first I wanted to see if it was working without making it a DHCP server.
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Stock Asus router firmware is known to advertise their own IP alongside the one configured in the LAN-->DHCP-->DNS settings.
Check with below if its advertising only the Pi-hole IP for DNS and not also the router IP:
pihole-FTL dhcp-discover
Else you could switch to Pi-hole DHCP like I did.
About YT ads, YT serves ads from the same domains as from which the actual media is coming from.
So blocking any could result in that some YT media wont play.
Search Discourse here where this has been discussed numerous times.
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