# Webbrowser/DNS resolution hangs

**URL:** <https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [October 29, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117 "2026-10-29T10:41:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ButterflyPocket](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ButterflyPocket](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/ButterflyPocket)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117/1 "2026-10-29T10:41:53Z")

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Hi!

Unfortuantely I suffer from the same problem since 10 years. It's always the same story: I grab a Raspberry, install Pi-hole, all works perfectly for a few days and then suddenly my webbrowser starts to hang, the DNS resolution simply isn't performant any more. Even "ping ..." in Windows would hang. Then I need to remove Pi-hole from my setup.

Now I tried it again a few days ago. After years, still the same.

I absolutely have no idea what that is. As upstream I use Google:

 ![image](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/uploads/default/original/3X/d/1/d1bbeeb4a97bc8d38cd37c5bf81dc500041c4040.png)

I checked the live query log and the queries do **not** show any delay, which is really strange.

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**Author:** ![nero355](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/nero355/32/54774_2.png) [@nero355](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/nero355)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:13pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117/2 "2026-10-29T12:13:21Z")

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> [@ButterflyPocket](#):
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> It's always the same story: I grab a Raspberry

Is it always the same one ?  
A Raspberry Pi can have hardware issues too! 😉

> [@ButterflyPocket](#):
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> Even "ping ..." in Windows would hang.

Ping to IP Address or Domain ?

What happens when you ping the IP Address of the Raspberry Pi on that moment ?

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**Author:** ![nprampage](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@nprampage](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/nprampage)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:43pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117/3 "2026-10-29T12:43:54Z")

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Without a debug log for the devs to review, you're shooting in the dark.

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**Author:** ![rdwebdesign](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/rdwebdesign/32/51363_2.png) [@rdwebdesign](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/rdwebdesign)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117/4 "2026-10-29T17:02:44Z")

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Please upload a debug log and post **just the token URL** that is generated after the log is uploaded by running the following command from the Pi-hole host terminal:

```auto
sudo pihole -d

```

or if you run your Pi-hole as a Docker container:

```auto
docker exec -it <pihole-container-name-or-id> pihole -d

```

where you substitute `<pihole-container-name-or-id>` as required.

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**Author:** ![ButterflyPocket](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@ButterflyPocket](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/ButterflyPocket)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117/5 "2026-10-29T17:25:12Z")

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Thanks for your time!

So far it turns out that likely I was just stupid. It's DNS, it's always DNS, it was always DNS—but in that case the DNS from my VPN. The OS used these servers without me knowing.

So I commented out all DNS lines for my configured Wireguard DNS servers and it seems it works now.

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**Author:** ![nero355](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/nero355/32/54774_2.png) [@nero355](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/nero355)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/webbrowser-dns-resolution-hangs/88117/6 "2026-10-29T18:34:30Z")

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**TIP :** In general every OS gives the VPN DNS Servers complete priority once you are connected via the VPN unless you have configured it in such a way that it does not!