Verify DNS resolves/VPN help

Expected Behaviour:

Entire network to route through pihole for DNS query, use cloudflared for Https:// and use the cloudflare DNS to resolve domains.

Actual Behaviour:

Don't shoot me, I searched for two days and I am at a loss, any help would be great.

Everything is working as advertised, except possibly the DNS resolving domains, unsure how to verify. Ipleak has my dns as my ISP DNS (not using a VPN so I guess I should expect that), traceroutes make no mention of a call to any of the cloudflare IP addresses. Any way to verify it's not using my ISP DNS?

Additionally. I have an account with VPN Unlimited and would like to tunnel my pi-hole (and by extension all traffic) through them, not just my individual devices.

All the walk throughs I could find are how to use pi to tunnel into my network, not out. Am I under the wrong idea, and I should get a DD-WRT capible router? (My current is a linksys E8500 that won't install DD-WRT)

Did you follow this guide?

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/

Yes, that's how I got the cloudflared for https:// working.

You can dig an ad domain to see if it is using Pi-hole and then dig a legitimate domain to see if it resolves properly.

dig @127.0.0.1 -p 5053 a-ads.com
dig @127.0.0.1 -p 5053 google.com
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unfortunately I can't tell a difference, as they both just tell me it echos through the router... which is good I guess. I take it back, I whois'd the IPs I thought were the websites that I was digging, and discovered they are in fact cloudflares, so everything is working 4.0. THANKS! Now to get my pi-hole to VPN into my VPN account...

Any Idea why couldfire doesn't show up as my upstream dns servers? I think my pi-hole image might need to be updated, however I'm unsure if it's a beta thing that others are using...

That is correct.

Cloudfare setting is available in the Beta version:

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You can give it a spin if you want:

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I am doing that now...

Because you are using Unbound?

What do you mean?

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