The original post: /r/pihole by /u/whistlingturtle on 2024-11-05 18:45:01.

This question stems from what FearTheHump told me in this reply. (Item 2b.)

I’m not seeing anything relevant in the “Settings” screen of the admin interface.

Context:

Because there are problems with my Pi-hole installation along with too many things I still don’t understand, I intend to try again on another machine. In the mean time, I don’t want to uninstall it from this one yet, but it’s running for nothing. I disabled it (which prevents if from blocking anything) and I stopped the logging (because that goes on even when blocking is disabled), but if I stop the FTL service, then I lose DNS on this machine, even though its connection settings are pointing to the router for DNS fulfillment, which in turn is not currently set up to point back to the Pi-hole host.

So, if there’s a way to tell Pi-hole to not “listen” to its host, then I think I need to do that before I stop the FTL service.

I changed almost nothing in Pi-hole’s settings after installation, so I’m surprised by this situation, given this statement on the Post-Install page of the Getting Started section of the doc:

“Pi-hole will not be used by the host automatically after installation.”

That is clearly false.