What is Debian missing to install pihole? (feddit.nl)

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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.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 day ago

Maybe Firefox was configured for DoH. Then it wouldn't use the OSs DNS settings.

[-] fort_burp@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh yea, excellent point. I'll have to check that out next time, thanks.

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