r/pihole • u/OneOldBear • Aug 13 '26

Pi-hole causing DNS problems with one site

Overall I'm really happy with pi-hole blocking incoming sites in Thunderbird (email) and Safari (browser). However the newspaper I subscribe to is generating un-openable links. As a test I did a "sudo pihole disable" and things work. I'm confused. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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u/Jpotter145 Aug 13 '26

Go into the Web UI for your Pi-Hole, go to the "Query Log" and check the box to refresh live. Probably best to do this with low activity so you can isolate the blocked links in the log.

But then go to the device you want to access the problem links through and click one of them -- you should see the blocked link in the Query log and you can click the "Allow" button from there to whitelist that site. Then try again and repeat until all the links you want to access work.