I was having an issue where my PS5 would connect to my network over wired and wireless, but would fail its internet connection check. I tried lots of troubleshooting, including completely resetting and starting over on it. Still no internet.
I started thinking it was pihole blocking things that the console needed. All I could find in the logs was a metrics address being blocked from the console. I allowed that and it still didn’t fix the issue. I tried disabling blocking on my two piholes. Still nothing; no internet on the console. Everything else on my network had internet just fine.
I ended up setting up a NAT rule on my Unifi gateway to exclude the PS5 from my captive DNS, then setting its DNS addresses to google’s dns servers. Bam! Internet connectivity restored.
I hate having to make this device bypass Pihole. Anybody else have an issue like this? If so, is there a more elegant solution to be able to keep the PS5 using Pihole?
Source: r/pihole · by /u/inaneshane