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    Helios reacted to bennor's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    One advantage of using DNS Director is catching those network clients who try to bypass the Pi-Hole by having their own fixed DNS server...
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    Helios reacted to bennor's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    To add to this, if one uses manual reservations (LAN > DHCP Server > Manual Assignment) and sets a Hostname for the client. Pi-Hole's...
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    Helios replied to the thread AX86U New Pihole.
    So basically the flood of the logs now from "www.google.com" is how it supposed to be if device have hard coded DNS? i see. Was worried...
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    Helios reacted to dave14305's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    Queries intercepted by DNS Director will appear as if they come from the router in Pi-Hole. Some client must be ignoring the DHCP DNS...
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    Helios reacted to bennor's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    Give it some time. If after an hour or two the clients are still not being resolved, reboot the router and see if anything changes. Make...
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    Helios reacted to bbunge's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    You would be better off to use Diversion on your router since you are running Merlin firmware. Diversion can use the same block lists...
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    Helios replied to the thread AX86U New Pihole.
    After router reboot as of now 6 out of 18 devices still missing names. Also the names are different than what i see on my router list...
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    Helios reacted to dave14305's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    Your earlier screenshot showed Dimon as the router domain, but you entered ASUS here. Did you change it on the router to ASUS also?
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    Helios replied to the thread AX86U New Pihole.
    Sorry forgot to mention, Yes i did change the domain on the router also before enabling Conditional Forwarding.
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    Helios replied to the thread AX86U New Pihole.
    Thanks i did put: true,192.168.50.0/24,192.168.50.1,ASUS on the setting. at the moment only 3 oit of 15 devices received names and some...
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    Helios reacted to bennor's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    @Helios, for Pi-Hole's Conditional Forwarding you follow the example they provided in the Conditional Forwarding section: "The...
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    Helios replied to the thread AX86U New Pihole.
    Okay thank you I've enabled DNS Director and followed your steps to configure it. Though now the rest of the smart bulbs that still...
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    Helios reacted to dave14305's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    Your guest network (depending how it’s configured) might not allow access to other LAN (intranet) devices like the Pi-Hole IP, or the AP...
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    Helios reacted to Tech9's post in the thread AX86U New Pihole with Like Like.
    Correct Pihole setup was discussed in perhaps >50 threads. Just use Search.
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    Helios replied to the thread AX86U New Pihole.
    I've seen some threads and some say need to enable the DNS Director and change the settings there and some say not so I'm confused a...
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