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What is Debian missing to install pihole? (feddit.nl)
submitted 5 months ago by fort_burp@feddit.nl to c/debian@lemmy.ml
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I've installed it on Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi but when I went to my friend's house today to install it on his Debian 12 laptop I couldn't get it to work. It might have just been general networking problems but is Debian shipped without a package that's needed for pihole?

The result of my attempt was strange- dig showed the computer was using 127.0.0.1#53 for DNS resolver, the pihole dashboard in the browser showed the queries, but Firefox kept saying it can't find the page. It was kind of embarrassing since I talked up pihole a lot and couldn't get it to work lol.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 5 months ago

Maybe Firefox was configured for DoH. Then it wouldn't use the OSs DNS settings.

[-] fort_burp@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

Oh yea, excellent point. I'll have to check that out next time, thanks.

[-] fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

No, it wasn't that :/

The other thing that's strange is that it all queries are coming from the client pihole:

Client:  pi.hole <local IP address>

Query Status:  Forwarded, reply from 127.0.0.1#5335

Reply:  SERVFAIL

The pihole is installed on the same computer that it's supposed to be the DNS resolver for (no access to router). I followed the instructions to the tee when installing pihole + unbound from the pihole website, but for some reason it's not working. All queries get SERVFAIL :/

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