RT-AC87U on 384.5 - can't get pi-hole to work

[Pilfam]

I am sure I am missing something really obvious but it has got me beat! I recently setup a pi-hole, plugged it in and set it's IP address to manual and then used this address in the 'WAN DNS setting' section. Problem is that this stopped all internet traffic! Is there something I am missing? another setting that needs to be changed somewhere? any advise is appreciated.

 

[tomsk]

I am sure I am missing something really obvious but it has got me beat! I recently setup a pi-hole, plugged it in and set it's IP address to manual and then used this address in the 'WAN DNS setting' section. Problem is that this stopped all internet traffic! Is there something I am missing? another setting that needs to be changed somewhere? any advise is appreciated.

you should put it in the LAN DNS setting

 

[Pilfam]

you should put it in the LAN DNS setting

Thanks tomsk. I am sure I tried that too but I will give it another try.

Do I need to change any of the other setting in there?

currently setup like;

Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS = yes
Forward local domain queries to upstream DNS = no
Enable DNSSEC support = no

 

[tomsk]

Thanks tomsk. I am sure I tried that too but I will give it another try.

Do I need to change any of the other setting in there?

currently setup like;

Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS = yes
Forward local domain queries to upstream DNS = no
Enable DNSSEC support = no

Not sure if "Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS = yes" would make any difference... but the other two are ok left as is. I assume the pi-hole itself is confirmed to be forwarding to an upstream DNS?And are you using the pi-hole as a DHCP server or having the router take care of that?

 

[Pilfam]

Not sure if "Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS = yes" would make any difference... but the other two are ok left as is. I assume the pi-hole itself is confirmed to be forwarding to an upstream DNS?And are you using the pi-hole as a DHCP server or having the router take care of that?

Yes, the pi-hole is confirmed to be forwarding to an upstream DNS (Cloudflare) and no, I am leaving the router to take care of the DHCP server

 

[tomsk]

Yes, the pi-hole is confirmed to be forwarding to an upstream DNS (Cloudflare) and no, I am leaving the router to take care of the DHCP server

I had a quick look around and found this https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-configure-my-devices-to-use-pi-hole-as-their-dns-server/245 i think if you use option 2 ... ie set the pi upstream dns as the router, plus having the pi IP in the LAN DNS setting , it will hopefully work

 

[kvic]

I'm quite rusty on WebGUI. Also my 56U is in AP mode so I only see a "LAN" tab that has "dns server1" and "dns server2". According to this demo GUI, if your 87U is router mode, you should have "WAN" tab.

So in WAN tab, set "Connect to DNS server automatically" to NO. Then you get "dns server1" and "dns server2".

Now set "dns server1" to Pi Hole IP address in both LAN and WAN tabs.

The idea behind is fairly simple. You set the upstream DNS server in 87U to Pi Hole. You broadcast Pi Hole ip address as DNS server to LAN clients connected to 87U.

 

[Pilfam]

I had a quick look around and found this https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-configure-my-devices-to-use-pi-hole-as-their-dns-server/245 i think if you use option 2 ... ie set the pi upstream dns as the router, plus having the pi IP in the LAN DNS setting , it will hopefully work

Thanks for your help tomsk but no luck going to start everything over from scratch again

 

[Pilfam]

I'm quite rusty on WebGUI. Also my 56U is in AP mode so I only see a "LAN" tab that has "dns server1" and "dns server2". According to this demo GUI, if your 87U is router mode, you should have "WAN" tab.

So in WAN tab, set "Connect to DNS server automatically" to NO. Then you get "dns server1" and "dns server2".

Now set "dns server1" to Pi Hole IP address in both LAN and WAN tabs.

The idea behind is fairly simple. You set the upstream DNS server in 87U to Pi Hole. You broadcast Pi Hole ip address as DNS server to LAN clients connected to 87U.

Hi kvic. I tried what you suggested (this is also how I originally tried) but doing this not only blocks the ads it blocks all internet traffic. I have just tried again with the same result. Going to the address below it says that I am blocking ads but I get no internet pages to load up.

https://blockads.fivefilters.org/?pihole

 

[kvic]

Hi kvic. I tried what you suggested (this is also how I originally tried) but doing this not only blocks the ads it blocks all internet traffic. I have just tried again with the same result. Going to the address below it says that I am blocking ads but I get no internet pages to load up.

https://blockads.fivefilters.org/?pihole

I don't know what's this website about. The fact that you can visit this website, means your Internet very likely not blocked.

Make sure your Pi Hole is properly set with upstream DNS servers too. Pi Hole cannot resolve domains on its own. It needs to get resolution from its upstream DNS servers. In most cases would some public DNS server. However, I have little idea how Pi Hole is configured. You will need to consult its manual.

To keep it simple, if you can visit dailymail.co.uk and don't see ads, you're all set.

 

[Pilfam]

I don't know what's this website about. The fact that you can visit this website, means your Internet very likely not blocked.

Make sure your Pi Hole is properly set with upstream DNS servers too. Pi Hole cannot resolve domains on its own. It needs to get resolution from its upstream DNS servers. In most cases would some public DNS server. However, I have little idea how Pi Hole is configured. You will need to consult its manual.

To keep it simple, if you can visit dailymail.co.uk and don't see ads, you're all set.

On the Pi Hole I have the upstream set to use Cloudflare but I have also tried Google and OpenDNS.

I will have to do some more reading as it almost seems it is being too aggressive as 'some' traffic is getting through (odd things like Instagram work but Twitter, imager, Reddit don't.

 

[kvic]

seems it is being too aggressive as 'some' traffic is getting through (odd things like Instagram work but Twitter, imager, Reddit don't.

I always tell people not use a long blocklist. You get Pi Hole perhaps you'll be fine with its FTLDNS.

However, if you include social, porn and etc in the blocklist, you apparently won't be able to visit them. That's very likely the case here.

For a typical home, you'll be doing very well with a popular blocklist about 100k entries. Excess is not help but hurts frankly.

 

[Pilfam]

I always tell people not use a long blocklist. You get Pi Hole perhaps you'll be fine with its FTLDNS.

However, if you include social, porn and etc in the blocklist, you apparently won't be able to visit them. That's very likely the case here.

For a typical home, you'll be doing very well with a popular blocklist about 100k entries. Excess is not help but hurts frankly.

i've just set it up and haven't added anything to the blacklist (or white list for that matter)....just set it up, changed the DNS in the router and found I couldn't access anything much. I thought that was all it needed

 

[kvic]

i've just set it up and haven't added anything to the blacklist (or white list for that matter)....just set it up, changed the DNS in the router and found I couldn't access anything much. I thought that was all it needed

Review your setup process. Perhaps one checkout you tick that get the most aggressive blocklist enabled in Pi Hole.

If you're ambitious, don't forget to set up and try pixelserv-tls on Pi Hole. Now things should work fairly well. But we're lacking a ELI5 guide..

 

[crapinon]

Set the ASUS router DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 - whatever (only the router will use it: for setting the time etc)
The easiest way is to let PiHole do DHCP. So turn DHCP off on the router (LAN settings page).
Then just adjust the DHCP settings in PiHole to reflect the IP pool you want, and specify the DNS server as the PiHole IP.

Easy. This way PiHole knows the names of all the items in the graphs it produces too (rather than just listing MAC addresses).

 

[blueshark]

Did you use this script to install ?
https://gist.github.com/outlyer/1d0a99ef5a76252342a611a85751a5c1

 

[crapinon]

No. Just SSH into the RaspberryPI/Odroid/Linux box that you want to run PiHole on and enter:

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

 

[clouless]

No. Just SSH into the RaspberryPI/Odroid/Linux box that you want to run PiHole on and enter:

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

Personally I'm using pinhole Tru openmediavault (NAS) very easy since is working Tru a docker https://forum.openmediavault.org/in...18/?postID=175185&highlight=pihole#post175185

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[kvic]

A better setup will be running dnsmasq on your router for dhcp and LAN hostname resolution.

Pi hole responsible for internet name resolution. Delegate LAN hostname resolution to router.

You get the best from both gui’s on router and pi hole. It’s also natural separation and logical grouping of functionalities.