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ArchLinux Pi-hole is not officially supported by Pi-hole project. In case of bugs and malfunctions please DO NOT file a report upstream.

First of all check if the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pi-hole) can help then ask here for assistance and tips.
When it will be excluded that the problem does not depend on ArchLinux we will file a bug upstream.

hi coxackie. for standalone version you need, as you said and as you read in the wiki, DNS service and pi-hole blocking enabled AND name resolving pointing to localhost. stop. nothing else.
pihole-FTL.service (since version 4 dnsmasq has been forked and integrated) IS the DNS server service (and a logger not so relevant in standalone version) and it is statically enabled. you need to mask it or it will always start with your system.

Hi @max.bra, thanks for your work. I have a naive question: how can we check that indeed all is running well? I have installed, not done anything regarding DNS, I run pihole status and get

  [✓] DNS service is running
  [✓] Pi-hole blocking is Enabled

Does this mean that all is good? Otherwise, could you explain a bit better how to set 127.0.0.1 so it is the only DNS server in use, as the wiki mentions? Is it just a matter of having nameserver 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf, or it requires more? Furthermore, does one need to start pihole-FTL.service, or is it optional in case one needs logs?

hi mborder, try now and thanks for reporting

I'm getting a number of errors with this that I suspect are new as of the most recent update. In the initial installation I get this:

==> Read setup instructions at <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pi-hole>
==> Generating initial block list, please wait...
/opt/pihole/webpage.sh: line 299: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/opt/pihole/webpage.sh: line 299: `}'
/usr/bin/pihole: line 28: main: command not found

Running commands with the pihole utility also seems to have errors

$ pihole status
  [✓] DNS service is running
  [i] Pi-hole blocking will be enabled
/usr/bin/pihole: line 258: /usr/local/bin/pihole: No such file or directory

$ pihole -a
  [✓] Restarting DNS service
/opt/pihole/webpage.sh: line 299: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/opt/pihole/webpage.sh: line 299: `}'
/usr/bin/pihole: line 28: main: command not found

Since everything is pretty much optional in pi-hole-server and from what I can tell there does not seem to be much difference between the two, why not having a single pi-hole package?

It would decrease the burden on you and the users.

Also https://pi-hole.net/2018/10/15/announcing-our-restful-api-contributions-welcome/ will decrease dependencies.

Absolutely yes. Server package do it and I need to align this package to. As I always said, this package deserve more love.

Okay it's working.

Thanks for the packages and helping out.

I spent a lot of time trying to make this work, wouldn't make more sense to just have pacman do that?

Don't know why but I missed some wiki modifications: a step is missing. I need to align this installation to the server one. Can you please copy ""/usr/share/pihole/configs/dnsmasq.example.conf" to /etc/dnsmasq.conf and restart ftl?

Okay I just replaced pi-hole-standalone with pi-hole-server to test and it's working. Let me know if I can help debug this somehow.

With no-resolv directive dnsmasq should not read that file