virgin router 'Steve' says needs Primary and Secondary DNS and a hostname

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Hello, I used to run my raspberry pi 3b+ with pi-hole on my old network. Everything used to work on it and it was amazing. Recently I moved and now I'm stuck with the 'Steve' router given by Virgin for my internet. I took my raspberry pi running pi-hole and re configured (pihole -r) to make it work on my network. The ip addresses changed and everything however when I went to change the DNS server on my Virgin 'Steve' router I had an issue.

My issue is that when I set it up to be my DNS server Virgin requires you to have a Primary DNS, and a Secondary DNS and a hostname.

TROUBLESHOOTING;

  1. I set my primary DNS to my raspberry pi and didn't touch the secondary one and the hostnames. FAILED.

  2. Tried to set my Primary and Secondary DNS to my raspberry pi. FAILED.

  3. Took a second raspberry pi and installed pi-hole. Set one of them as my primary DNS and the other one as my Secondary DNS. FAILED.

  4. Turned off DHCP from my router and turned on DHCP from my raspberry pi, nothing worked.. FAILED.

So in conclusion, does anyone know what's up with that? Any tips please... These adds are driving me insane.

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Look for a DNS rebind protection on your router. If there is a setting, disable this.

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I tried to find one but I can't find one. Doesn't seem to be available.

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I tried already and can't find one.

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If you cannot turn off DHCP on the router completely, then restrict the IP range of the DHCP server on the router to a single IP, and make that the IP of the Pi.

Then, enable DHCP on the Pi with a non-overlapping range compared to the router, reboot the router and renew the DHCP leases on all clients.

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Ok will do. Will try this then

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