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Orbi doesn't fall over to 2nd or 3rd DNS
I have a couple of Raspberry Pi's running PiHole for my DNS. The setup works great, but the other day the first PiHole machine got unplugged, and my devices weren't able to reach the network, despite...
So I think I figured things out.
One of my RPi is setup as my DHCP server, and when I looked the DNSMasq .conf file it was only passing on the IP address of the DNS servers for that RPi, not the addresses for the RPi PiHole severs.
I edited the .conf file, and replaced 8.8.8.8, etc with the local pihole IPs, and for the first time ever I have all three of my RPis showing blocked traffic!
Makes a person wonder if the Orbi DNS code came from (a) the OpenWRT that Orbi is based on, or (b) was ported from the Nighthawk line. Would be a hoot to see if the Nighthawk line has the same 'disappointment'. Will take me the weekend to set up a second Pihole and dig out a Nighthawk to compare with Orbi.
Anything I can do to help test?
Have two Pi-holes running now. Am hoping that "pihole disable 10m" means to turn off everything, rather than "quit blocking and resolve everything." Validating your results on Orbi will be quick. Have to dig in my "Big Box of Stuff" to find my Nighthawk R7000 and Archer (might as well test it, too.)
- My understanding is the “disable for X mins” is simply to turn off the content blocking.