Pihole be the DNS server in the whole network?

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I made an extra topic for that problem:

Recursor mode makes (blocked) connections to strange IPs

In recursor mode IPFire is acting as the recursor dns server and contacting the individual name servers itself. See this blog post for more info. https://blog.ipfire.org/post/what-you-can-do-with-the-new-dns-features-in-ipfire It could be that the strange IP’s you see are the names of name servers that IPFire is trying to contact. Why they are getting blocked I don’t know. Are you using the IP Blocklist. Could some of those IP’s be in an IP blocklist. If you check the source of the IP’s do t…