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@DomiP That’s right, you could do that, but I don’t want to. In my Fritzbox, all devices were connected identically and the hostnames were “passed through” to the PiHole.

I played around with conditional forwarding in PiHole, but that didn’t solve it either 😞

Conditional forwarding

If not configured as your DHCP server, Pi-hole typically won’t be able to determine the names of devices on your local network. As a result, tables such as Top Clients will only show IP addresses.

One solution for this is to configure Pi-hole to forward these requests to your DHCP server (most likely your router), but only for devices on your home network. To configure this we will need to know the IP address of your DHCP server and which addresses belong to your local network. Exemplary input is given below as placeholder in the text boxes (if empty).

And here is the solution

I don’t have the option “Require DNS server via DHCP option 6” in the network settings / DHCP of the InternetBox 3. Enabled. After restarting the client / re-registering to the network, the host name is still passed through.

I also keep the above-mentioned PiHole settings for conditional forwarding.

Thanks to all!

Hi everyone,

I have now connected my (old) Pi to the Internetbox 3 and everything works, with one exception: only 2 clients are displayed in the Pihole, namely localhost and internetbox.home, although all network clients of course go via the Pihole.

Does anyone have an idea what else I need to set so that all device names / hostnames are “reported” to the Pi?

@POGO 1104: very good tip with the VPN, I actually wanted to use the VPN function of the Internet box there.