What I intend to achieve. Some devices in my network have hardcoded dns 8.8.8.8 Any device using any other DNS other than PiHole (at 192.168.1.2) should be redirected to PiHole Redirection must be in such a way that PiHole sees the original IP of the device, else PiHole logs show the requesting d…

Set up a LAN alias using a different subnet and assign Pi-hole an IP on that subnet: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/network_interface_alias Then you should be able to remove the masquerading/SNAT rule.

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frollic March 16, 2021, 3:35pm 4