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#268464 20-Mar-2020 21:09
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See update below - still outstanding

 

I've just upgraded my Fritzbox 7390 to a 7590. After a call to 2degrees to get the settings right internet is working fine for my a variety of Windows 10 PCs, WiFi, all Android phones and tablets.

 

Next I configured the new Fritz DCHP to hand out the IP of my Pi Hole for ad blocking. This works fine from every PC on Ethernet, my work Surface Laptop 2 over Wifi, my Android 9 phone, my wife's Android 9 phone, my Android 7 tablet on WiFi.

 

The problem is while my wife's Windows 10 PC can query the Pi Hole over Ethernet to get IPs, it can't get IPs when it's connected via Wifi. It can ping the Pi Hole, ssh to the Pi Hole, and the Pi Hole receives the DNS query, but for some reason the Windows machine doesn't get the reply. I have tried turning the Windows Firewall off, made no difference.

 

The Fritz is 192.168.1.1 (I changed , the Pi Hole is 192.168.1.11

 

This shows the problem

 

nslookup google.com 192.168.1.11
Server:  pihole
Address:  192.168.1.11

 

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to pihole timed-out

 

nslookup google.com 192.168.1.1
Server:  fritz.box
Address:  192.168.1.1

 

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    google.com
Addresses:  2001:4860:4802:34::75
          216.239.32.117
          216.239.36.117
          216.239.38.117
          216.239.34.117

 

Here's the corresponding log from the Pi Hole for the first nslookup - I can see the DNS query arrives, but for some reason the PC can't see the reply.

 

Mar 20 20:05:38 dnsmasq[528]: query[A] example.com from 192.168.1.14
Mar 20 20:05:38 dnsmasq[528]: forwarded example.com to 202.37.101.2
Mar 20 20:05:38 dnsmasq[528]: forwarded example.com to 202.37.101.1
Mar 20 20:05:40 dnsmasq[528]: query[AAAA] example.com from 192.168.1.14
Mar 20 20:05:40 dnsmasq[528]: forwarded example.com to 202.37.101.2
Mar 20 20:05:40 dnsmasq[528]: forwarded example.com to 202.37.101.1

 

This works fine on my work PC over Wifi. It works fine on the same laptop over Ethernet. Why is it not working on this one laptop?!

 

Note that I have hard coded the DNS server to 192.168.1.1 in Windows WiFi properties, so I've got it working, but I'd like to solve the problem :)

 

 

 

****** Update ******

 

My Kasa WiFi mains timer also had problems. I changed my DHCP to hand out the Fritzbox DNS instead of the PiHole DNS and it started working properly again.

 

So it seems the problem is some (not all) wireless devices aren't working well with the Pi Hole DNS. The Pi Hole gets the DNS request, but the response doesn't seem to get back to the device.

 

I can try WireShark or similar, but the network is pretty noisy most of the time, so I'll have to wait until I can unplug lots of things and experiment for an hour - a rare event with kids.


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  #2444845 23-Mar-2020 19:40
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Ok, I think I solved it. Short version: with the change to the router the Pi Hole wasn't able to query ISP DNS - not sure why, I just built a new one on another R.Pi and it worked. Wired devices may have been failing over to secondary DNS server, but some devices didn't seem to do that.

 

So I think it's all solved now... but if that's not the case I'll update later.


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