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As per. I have a feeling not, as it's DNS level, not application level?

I have a Alta Labs Route 10 and a Alta AP6 pro on the way. I don’t see a way to do this in the router like my Asus had. I want to point specific devices at PiHole.

I have a few devices, Roku for example, that I can’t set the DNS on the device.

Is there a work around I’m missing?

It started with Wetter.com then Winfuture.de followed and now im also getting it on Bild.de from time to time.

Is there anything i can do about this so i can still browse those sites without disabling Pihole for those sites?

But I can't find any recent threads here about the issue? Since I updated my iPhone and have moved from iOS 16 to 26, I'm just flabbergasted by the ad-every-paragraph thing, injected into every article. I thought I had Google ads blocked successfully (because most of them seem to be Google ads), but it's just made the app and its contents basically unusable - it used to be a nice way to scan the days news, but no longer.

I'm new to pihole. After tinkering I've got it running but it's not without questions.

For the host (pi.hole), there are these ipv4only.arpa queries that are happening dozens of times per minute. I believe it's a reverse lookup up of sorts that asks for IPV6 addresses? I don't have ipv6 enabled on my network.

I search the sub without a clear answer. I also saw this post on the forum suggesting it's an Apple device doing it.

Is there any downside to putting an exclusion of ipv4only.arpa requests to the query log (or any of the other domains seen)?

In addition to the arpa requests, it's also hitting example.org over and over again. Any reason for that? Haven't been able to find an exact reason as to why it's hitting a domain used for illustrative purposes.

I'll take any help I can get! Thanks in advance

I've been using the ASUS ZenWiFi XT9 mesh router with the pi-hole for a long while but suddenly my query log started filling up with a flood of requests that return a NXDOMAIN response which result in the FTL-queries getting expanded non-stop .

AAAA null 192.168.129.67 OK (cache) NXDOMAIN (0.0ms)
A null 192.168.129.67 OK (cache) NXDOMAIN (0.0ms)

[2026-05-18 01:41:00.637 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 12845056 to (245760 * 56) == 13762560 (/dev/shm: 14.9MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 14.9MB)
[2026-05-18 01:43:56.100 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 13762560 to (262144 * 56) == 14680064 (/dev/shm: 15.8MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 15.8MB)
[2026-05-18 01:46:53.037 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 14680064 to (278528 * 56) == 15597568 (/dev/shm: 16.8MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 16.7MB)
[2026-05-18 01:50:00.138 6746/T6780] Notice: Database size is 8416.49 MB, deleted 2191 rows
[2026-05-18 01:50:02.427 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 15597568 to (294912 * 56) == 16515072 (/dev/shm: 17.7MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 17.6MB)
[2026-05-18 01:53:32.350 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 16515072 to (311296 * 56) == 17432576 (/dev/shm: 18.6MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 18.5MB)
[2026-05-18 01:56:45.228 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 17432576 to (327680 * 56) == 18350080 (/dev/shm: 19.5MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 19.5MB)
[2026-05-18 02:00:00.264 6746/T6780] Notice: Database size is 8416.49 MB, deleted 2136 rows
[2026-05-18 02:00:08.590 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 18350080 to (344064 * 56) == 19267584 (/dev/shm: 20.4MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 20.4MB)
[2026-05-18 02:03:11.866 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 19267584 to (360448 * 56) == 20185088 (/dev/shm: 21.3MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 21.3MB)
[2026-05-18 02:06:14.924 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 20185088 to (376832 * 56) == 21102592 (/dev/shm: 22.3MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 22.2MB)
[2026-05-18 02:09:12.961 6746M] Resizing "FTL-queries" from 21102592 to (393216 * 56) == 22020096 (/dev/shm: 23.2MB used, 2.1GB total, FTL uses 23.1MB)
[2026-05-18 02:10:00.191 6746/T6780] Notice: Database size is 8416.49 MB, deleted 2497 rows

Nothing has changed on my side. I am not sure what to do to stop this flood.

Pi-hole v5.18.3 FTL v5.25.2 Web Interface v5.21.

A couple days ago i set up a minecraft server on a thinkpad l590, i used ubuntu serve, since i got some free power not used i tried to setup PiHole, then the following day i spent like hours to find all possible filter lists to get the best out of it. I have a 2.5M domains blocklist of every kind: ads, tracking, malware, popups.

I thought that the impact on my daily browsing would be massive, but in reality a lot of things pass through it like nothing. For example it did basically nothing on popup ads, every time i enter in a site and i click on something every popup load like before, even malicious ones.

The only difference i found is on very basic trash ads into sites.

YT, twitch, netflix, DP, and every other streaming platform is untouched. (PiHole is praised on yt videos as the fix to this problem, even if it can't deal with that kind of ads).

This made me realize how Ublock Origin is, since i actually forgot the last time i saw an actual ad completely load while using UbO.

Hello everyone, I installed Pihole on my Ugreen NAS via Docker. It seems to be working fine. The problem is that once I set the DNS on my devices, I’m running into quite a few issues. The most significant one is that I lose my internet connection… I have no idea where the problem is coming from. Are there any tutorials on how to fine-tune Pihole?

My ISP modem doesn't let me choose DNS settings, so to make my Pi-Hole work I need to use its DHCP server. This would be easy if I had less Ethernet devices than ports on the modem. I don't.

My setup is physically constrained to the following :

ISP modem (Provides WiFi 7)
      - TV decoder
      - 4-port switch :
          - Pi-Hole
          - NAS server
          - Old semi-broken laptop running as a home server.
      - 1 free Ethernet cable for devices with no/poor WiFi (guests' older laptops for instance)

Important note : if I disable the modem's DHCP server the TV box stops working, because it needs the former's DNS settings (though I guess I could replicate those settings as fallback on the PiHole)

As for the switch, it has its own DHCP server and even a WiFi access point, though it dates from 2007 so it's painfully slow.

How should I set the DHCP servers so that I can protect the modem's WiFi network and all Ethernet devices with the PiHole, AND make the port forwarding work for my home server ?