PiHole Question

[Bernie]

I have Pi Hole running successfully in my Pi. My home network is managed by a Mikrotik router which is running DHCP server and is pushing the Pi Hole as the DNS server - all good.

For wireless clients, the Pihole is picking up the Mikrotik IP as the client. For wired clients I can see the actual client IP.

Googling this I see some 2 year old posts on Reddit and other sources explaining the issue is with the router.

The solution it seems is to run DHCP from the Pi Hole itself. I am not too keen on doing this, as I have 3 DHCP servers running on the Mik and prefer to have everything in one place.

Is there anything else I can try on the Mikrotik to get around this, maybe a mangle rule of sorts. Is anyone running a similar setup and have a workaround.

TIA.

 

[Kingskid]

I have exactly the same set up.
I have my main IP>DNS set as the PI-Hole and then IP>DHCP Server > Networks I have set each network pool to use the Pi-Hole as DNS,
not sure if that perhaps helps?

 

[Bernie]

I have exactly the same set up.
I have my main IP>DNS set as the PI-Hole and then IP>DHCP Server > Networks I have set each network pool to use the Pi-Hole as DNS,
not sure if that perhaps helps?

In your Pi Hole logs, do you see each wireless client actual IP, or your routers IP. This is the issue I am having. I still get the benefit of the Pi hole so not totally fussed, but it would be really great to see which wireless client generated the DNS query.

 

[Kingskid]

In your Pi Hole logs, do you see each wireless client actual IP, or your routers IP. This is the issue I am having. I still get the benefit of the Pi hole so not totally fussed, but it would be really great to see which wireless client generated the DNS query.

I see each device's IP in the Pi-Hole logs

 

[Bernie]

I see each device's IP in the Pi-Hole logs

Damn I am jealous

Is your mikrotik providing the wifi itself, or do you have a separate access point connected to the router where the wifi is setup.

 

[Kingskid]

My Mikrotik router is broadcasting 4 separate ssid's, each one with its own ip range.
The Pi-Hole logs each device IP in each of the 4 ranges, been looking through the config but other than those extra settings for networks, I did not find anything else I can offer as a suggestion, even checked if there was perhaps something in Pi-Hole that might help.

 

[irBosOtter]

Is there not a NAT rule somewhere for traffic between wireless clients and lan clients that's causing that?

 

[Bernie]

Is there not a NAT rule somewhere for traffic between wireless clients and lan clients that's causing that?

Thank you - Thank you.

This is exactly the issue.

My general masquerade rule for NAT for internet did not specify an outbound interface - I didn't need it and when I had 2 WAN interfaces 1 rule for them was fine. Now, as soon I specified my WAN interface in the rule, all local clients now started appearing in the pi hole logs.

Again, thank you - much appreciated.