Whitelist Being Ignored completely (2.9.2 issue on Ubuntu?)

[dschaper]

@sam24and48 commented on Mon Oct 10 2016

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[BUG | ISSUE] Expected Behaviour: I have added multiple addresses including msftncsi.com, www.msftncsi.com, support.microsoft.com, and msn.com. We performed this last week and it fixed the issue of limited connectivity on our machines and also the ability to get to pages on support.microsoft.com and confirmed connectivity to msftncsi.com. (However today after the weekend and the 2.9.2 update it is pi-holing all of those addresses)

[BUG | ISSUE] Actual Behaviour: It appears to be completely ignoring the whitelist entirely. Today as I have done nslookups on the machines for all of those addresses they are pointing directly to the pi-hole ip. I have rebooted the pi-hole device multiple times along with dnsflushes on the machines multiple times. I can see in the web admin interface where it is flat out pi-holing the address when I go to it even though it is specifically added to the whitelist (example: support.microsoft.com).

[BUG | ISSUE] Steps to reproduce:

(Optional) Debug Log generated by pihole -d:

http://termbin.com/s1lw

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@dschaper commented on Mon Oct 10 2016

Hi, how are you adding the domains to the whitelist? Via commandline or via the web interface?

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@dschaper commented on Mon Oct 10 2016

And I do show that support is blacklisted on one of the lists:

::: /etc/pihole/list.7.raw.githubusercontent.com.domains (2 results)
diagnostics.support.microsoft.com #Microsoft
support.microsoft.com #Microsoft

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@sam24and48 commented on Mon Oct 10 2016

I added it via the web interface

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@dschaper commented on Mon Oct 10 2016

Okay, I'd like to move this issue over to the Web Interface repository for further review. Better venue to handle the questions.

[AzureMarker]

Run cat /etc/pihole/gravity.list | grep support.microsoft.com.

[sam24and48]

Here are the results of that command

[PromoFaux]

I'm not sure this is a web interface issue. However we'll keep it here instead of moving it about too much! :)

Can you please run pihole -g to re-run the gravity script, and then give us the output of the command @Mcat12 asked again? thanks!

[sam24and48]

Sooooooo.... here's the output. It appears it stuck this time. I know for a fact I ran that pihole -g yesterday? Did some of the lists get changed since then maybe?

and here we ran the command again and got no output:

[PromoFaux]

We may or may not have introduced an edge-case bug or two in 2.9.2 that doesn't run gravity properly during update, but is resolved by a simple run of pihole -g 😊

We're furiously working on getting that fixed here... pi-hole/pi-hole#774

Anyway, glad it's now working for you, and seems I was right about it not being web interface related. If it happens again, please feel free to reopen the original issue you opened here : pi-hole/pi-hole#775

[sam24and48]

Will do, thanks again for your help!