Has anyone got Pi-hole running with an Ultrafast Plus SR203 router ?

[smudgester]

Hi all,

As above really.

I understand that it is not possible to change the DNS setttings on the SR203 ( very poor Sky 😞 ) - which is the way I have set Pi-hole up in the past - but I was wondering if anybody had managed to get Pi-hole working with it by simply disabling DHCP on the SR203 and enabling it on the Pi-hole ?

Would this have any knock on affects with my LAN devices ? I also don't current use the WiFi settings on the SR203 (my Wifi is handled by a Tenda MESH where the main node has a wired connection to the SR203). At this point the SR203 is simply there to provide the landline phone functionality and the connection to the Fibre modem(?)

[mae-3]

@smudgester 

You could try it as DHCP can be disabled on the SR203 and enabled on the pi-hole, also if pi-hole DNS features don't work as expected then try setting up pi-hole to use DNS over HTTPS to say, somebody like Cloudflare.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/ 

[averter]

@smudgesterI'm on the same boat as you (have exactly the same sky model) + my rpi also has wireguard installed.

@mae-3I've tried disabling dhcp on the router and turning it on the pi-hole but the result was that I was not able to connect to the LAN anymore/had to reset the router and reconfigure everything. 😕. Step 1 changed the configuration in the pi-hole web interface and saved it, step 2 unticked the dhcp option in the sky router menu, and step 3 sent a reboot command to the rpi and the router, so that both would restart simultaneously. After all this the wifi SSID was being broadcast but my laptop would never actually connect to it...Any ideas why this would not work? Thanks.

[mae-3]

@averter 

Are you sure the RPi and Sky router is on the same subnet?

[averter]

@mae-3 

I believe so...

Please see attached the devices attached to the network and my Lan TCP/IP setup.