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Package has been updated! You can read Pi-hole's blog to see what's new: https://pi-hole.net/blog/2026/02/17/pi-hole-ftl-v6-5-web-v6-4-1-and-core-v6-4-released/ Warning: Teleporter backups created prior to this version won't import as I removed patch that rewrote /opt/etc => /etc in the created...

My what? Did you mean to write "You're" there? No issue - I have a daily backup of the whole drive - I'll just get another stick and restore. My current stick still didn't fail even after 84289.22 MB (~150 MB daily) of writes (so far). I've been using the same noname 16G stick since I started...

Most of these views are bots, crawlers and AI's though, that's how internet works these days... My thread got over 33k views just because of it containing popular keyword.

I'm not running Entware on SSD, yet. 😖 Using a random flash drive that I'm surprised lasted this long (Total written: 82776.33 MB). Obviously keeping database in memory will be the best way to keep the Pi-hole fast, feature from that PR will only be useful for people close to out of memory...

Just putting a note here that the mentioned pull request has been merged and changes are now available in the development package, for the brave people.

How did you check it? It would take a while to be picked up as all devices cache DNS responses anyway, you would have to visit a website you didn't visit before to be 100% sure it didn't. Does Tools -> Network list your devices?

Have you confirmed that those two options were actually in dnsmasq.conf after dnsmasq restart / router reboot?

I believe conditional forwarding only makes it so that Pi-hole dashboard can resolve client names. It shouldn't really matter if it is Merlin's firmware or not. For clarity - the dnsmasq config options have to be added on the router that is acting as DHCP using dnsmasq.add script.

That's because router advertises itself as the DNS server and forwards all queries. You will have to set the IP of the Pi-hole as the DNS server on the DHCP page of ASUS gui. Alternatively, you can use a trick I'm using in Install on ASUS stock firmware: - add add-subnet=32,128 and add-mac=text...

"Use the right tool for the job" When it comes to blocking it will probably have the same results (although I'm not sure if Diversion uses CNAME inspection to catch sneaky ad subdomains). There is a lot of Pi-hole users and then there is a lot of AdGuard Home users who choose to switch over...

@bibikalka There seem to be more work on the memory optimization being done in the FTL repo - https://github.com/pi-hole/FTL/pull/2757 Considering a lot of people put Entware on fast SSDs this PR might reduce memory requirements to use this project significantly. If this gets merged it will be...

In case anyone wants to give it a go - here is a rough example of the installer. Left a bunch of comments telling what to improve/add. The Script - PLEASE DO NOT RUN IT - IT IS NOT TESTED AND A LOT OF STUFF IS MISSING.

For context - this is the interfaces page we are talking about:

This is to add the secondary IP to the br0 interface, my version of the guide is doing the same. You can notice that Asus firmware does exactly the same thing with lo interface.

Have you checked the dev tools and that network/gateway request on other browsers too? It still confused me how the headers said there is content returned yet browser had no data, it's almost like it was stripped by something.