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.
Maybe Firefox was configured for DoH. Then it wouldn’t use the OSs DNS settings.
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#5335Reply: SERVFAILThe 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 :/
Oh yea, excellent point. I’ll have to check that out next time, thanks.