Narrator: it does not work on Lemmy

!remindme 1 day

Does !remindme work on Lemmy?

Yes! It has a firewall! :D

Turning it off yielded the same results :(

Ping works only by IP address. Pinging a hostname gives me Temporary failure in name resolution

Dig gives me SERVFAIL but at least it’s using the right DNS resolver (the pihole installed on the same computer)

;; SERVER: 192.168.1.102#53(192.168.1.102) (UDP)

and pihole.log is full of

query[A] github.com from 192.168.1.102
2025-08-xxx forwarded github.com to 127.0.0.1#5335
2025-08-xxx forwarded github.com to 127.0.0.1#5335
2025-08-xxx reply error is SERVFAIL

Trying to update gravity on the pihole browser dashboard (which at least works) gives me

try to update gravity

  [✗] DNS resolution is currently unavailable
  [i] Waiting up to 120 seconds for DNS resolution............

But I wonder what it means that all queries are coming from a client named pihole. On other installations it just shows the client as their local IP address.

Client:  pi.hole 192.168.1.102
Query Status:  Forwarded, reply from 127.0.0.1#5335
Reply:  SERVFAIL

Thanks for your help!

No, it wasn’t that :/

The other thing that’s strange is that it all queries are coming from the client pihole:

Client:  pi.hole <local IP address>

Query Status:  Forwarded, reply from 127.0.0.1#5335

Reply:  SERVFAIL

The pihole is installed on the same computer that it’s supposed to be the DNS resolver for (no access to router). I followed the instructions to the tee when installing pihole + unbound from the pihole website, but for some reason it’s not working. All queries get SERVFAIL :/

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