Pi-hole in docker install worked but ads not blocked

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Jon R

• September 26, 2020 14:55

I'm a bit of a fish out of water with networking and SSH, but I'm learning. I managed to install Pi-hole in a docker on FWG. Everything seemed to go just fine. I can access the Pi-hole admin console, but if I turn off Firewalla ad block to check pi-hole, it's not blocking any ads and is only showing a few queries from localhost. I updated the DNS server on the networks on Firewalla to be the pi-hole IP address 172.16.0.2. DoH is turned off. I'm sure this is something fairly simple but I'm stumped. 

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  Mike

  • September 29, 2020 16:57

  I have the same issue.

  I followed the step-by-step guide, and everything looks fine - but it doesn't seem to be using my DNS settings.

   

  The confusing thing for me, is the part where you setup the Primary DNS, I have two networks I can configure - WAN and LAN.  I am able to edit the Primary DNS for the LAN, but not for the WAN (which is set to the IP of my ATT router).

   

  When I use whatsmydnsserver.com - it's clearly using the AT&T DNS server - so I feel like to get this to work I need to be able to edit the WAN value - but I can't. 

   

  What am I missing?

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  Mike

  • September 29, 2020 18:26

  So I think I'm closer to this working.

  The "WAN" network was originally setup with a "Connection Type" of "DHCP".  I have since changed that to "Static IP" - and the result is that I'm seeing a LOT more activity on the Pi-Hole side, and it's reporting that it's blocking things.

  I'm still seeing some ads I don't think I should be - but maybe that's some Pi-Hole configuration at this point.

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