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WaLLy3K / Pi-hole-Block-Page

A "Website Blocked" page to go with https://pi-hole.net
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Blockpage is not showing up but pi-hole is working #18

Closed bilbravo closed 7 years ago

bilbravo commented 7 years ago

I installed PiHole recently and also added your Pi-hole block page. When I try to visit some blocked pages I just get a message that it can't be reached, but no block page.

I did not modify /var/phbp.ini at all after the install, because for now all of the default settings are fine with me.

I am using my router's DHCP server and set DNS to the pi-hole IP on the router and NOT on each individual device (they are getting DNS automatically).

One thing that I am finding odd is that when I do an nslookup on doubleclick.com the original IP address of the pi-hole is being displayed (192.168.0.115) instead of the current, static one that I set (192.168.0.101). So this may be a pi-hole issue but I don't think it's odd that pi-hole is working fine but this isn't. I was wondering if pi-hole block page might be caching the old IP somewhere?

nslookup doubleclick.com

Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.0.1

Name: doubleclick.com Addresses: 2607:f8b0:4004:801::200e 192.168.0.115

WaLLy3K commented 7 years ago

The block page doesn't interact with DNS entries in any way, it just determines the content of the blocked page for users that arrive at it.

If you're getting outdated information on one of your client devices, you may want to reset the DNS cache on that device. E.g: ipconfig /flushdns on Windows.

bilbravo commented 7 years ago

On my windows machines when I try to go to doubleclick (or any of the websites blocked by pi-hole) I just get the standard browser "this page cannot be located" page.

I will re-install pi-hole and the blocking page and update.

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The block page doesn't interact with DNS entries in any way, it just determines the content of the blocked page for users that arrive at it.

If you're getting outdated information on one of your client devices, you may want to reset the DNS cache on that device. E.g: ipconfig /flushdns on Windows.

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WaLLy3K commented 7 years ago

There's been no update on this for some time, so I'm going to close this for now :)