How to Pass Kea DHCP Hostnames/Descriptions into Pihole??

[johnpoz]

@Burnski666 if your pihole points to pfsense, and you want it to resolve those IPs to names - you have to uncheck the box on the pihole to never forward private ranges.

And pfsense needs to resolve them.. do a query to pfsense via nslookup does it resolve

example here is a dns query to my pfsense IP 192.168.9.253, asking for the name of 192.168.9.10

> 192.168.9.10
Server:  sg4860.home.arpa
Address:  192.168.9.253

Name:    nas.home.arpa
Address:  192.168.9.10

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz

I have Pihole setup to use pfSense for its upstream resolver:

I dont have Never Forward reverse lookup checked:

Also, do I still need this:

EDIT: is nslookup a plugin? I dont see it / cant find it?

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz

is this what im after? this is the IP of the desktop PC im on:

[johnpoz]

@Burnski666 well if pfsense doesn't resolve it then no anything asking for that IP will not get an answer.

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz gotcha. how do i fix it?

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz

i disabled pointing my DNS to pihole and just back to the default resolver. did a flushdns and it still doesnt resolve my local PC

[johnpoz]

@Burnski666 as I said if pfsense doesn't resolve then nothing will.. If kea is not creating the dns entries from dhcp, then you need to fix that..

Do you have kea set to register them - it was moved to the kea interface.. before that was like a setting in the resolver.

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz

as far as i know/understand, whatever i have setup in pfsense is whatever it was OOTB. Only thing ive changed was setting static IP's for all my devices, and pointed my DNS to my Pihole. Here are a couple screenshots of various pages, maybe something will look wrong to you?

Does any of this help/mean anything that might figure out why i cant get hostnames into pihole?

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz

ok, wait i just checked that box

and now it resolves my PC

but still nothing coming through to pihole.

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz

sweet baby jesus i think it works.

i also enabled early DNS since i have mostly static leases

and i added my router to the conditional forward in pihole

and now names are coming through!

Am i missing anything else? Do i have any security issues you can see that i inadvertantly created? thanks.

[Burnski666]

@johnpoz hmm ok i thought i was done but maybe not.

I have a bunch of smart bulbs. ive gone through and renamed them [ Services -> DHCP Server -> LAN]

but they still come through to pihole with their default names:

How do i get pihole to pickup (pfsense to broadcast?) the hostname/description ive assigned it?

EDIT: disregard, turns out it was a simple as giving it a few min to update