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mman3222's avatar
Jun 19, 2024
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RS7000S NOT working with Pi-hole. Bug Report.

I have been running a Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole installed for years. Absolutely ZERO issues with all the routers I've had over the last 5 years.    My Netgear RS7000S is running the latest Firmware...
  • mman3222's avatar
    Jun 22, 2024

    Well, here is one for the books. 

     

    All the websites and forum posts say to enter your Pi-hole's IP address as the DNS server in your Netgear router's setting. That is absolutely NOT true! 

     

    Every post said "Go to Internet > DNS > enter in your Pi-Hole's IP addresss (in my case, 192.168.1.2.)

     

    That is NOT the case with Netgear routers!

     

    Instead, I had to use Public DNS servers. I used 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. 

     

    Then, go to Advanced > Setup > LAN Setup > DISABLE DHCP. 

     

    Enable DHCP in your Pi-hole. Once you do that, then only will your deviecs on your network be told that your DHCP server is your Pi-hole IP address AND your DNS server will also be handed out my your Pi-hole!

     

    Now when I run a "ipconfig /all" in my Windows box, I see that Pi-hole (192.168.1.2) is the DHCP server AND the DNS server. 

     

    Everything is working as intended now.

     

    Sheesh, Netgear! Get your stuff together! 

     

    Problem solved! I hop this helps someone in the future on Google 🙂