Not sure if this ever got solved, but I’m running Pihole on my network and eero for gateway, routing, Wi-Fi, and dhcp functions. The gateway address (i.e. 192.168.0.1) is the only one that shows up in the pihole logs.
I have DNS Caching off on my eero configuration, and I’ve got conditional forwarding on on the pihole config.
Anything else I can do to have the individual IPs actually make requests to the pihole without being intercepted by the eero?
Ok—that is an excellent sanity check. Thanks for confirming.
The only difference for my setup is that I have enabled HomeKit support in the eero. Never thought twice about it, but looks like it works in part by forcing dns onto the gateway router. I’ll be turning it off now.
https://community.eero.com/t/y4ht25q/separate-dns-settings-for-non-homekit-devices
https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/for-eero-users-did-you-bother-setting-up-the-homekit/20629/2
Ok—that is an excellent sanity check. Thanks for confirming.
The only difference for my setup is that I have enabled HomeKit support in the eero. Never thought twice about it, but looks like it works in part by forcing dns onto the gateway router. I’ll be turning it off now.
https://community.eero.com/t/y4ht25q/separate-dns-settings-for-non-homekit-devices
https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/for-eero-users-did-you-bother-setting-up-the-homekit/20629/2
Make sure you configured the Eero (in the app) to point your DHCP clients to your PiHole. On the iOS version that setting is under settings—network settings—DNS. Set it up as a custom DNS server. Then release/renew the client devices (or restart) for the setting to take effect.
Not sure if your eero can do this easily but you probably want to use DHCP option 6 so your router will forward the DNS server you select to all clients. That’s how I do it on openwrt.