PiHole - FTLDNS

[PrimAvalou]

Hi everyone !

I tried to install Pi-hole Server on my computer following this tutorial :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pi-hole

There is no any information about editing the config file /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf, so I directly tried to start the service. It failed, so I tried both tricks explained at :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pi-hole#Failed_to_start_Pi-hole_FTLDNS_engine

Even if port 53 was free, because systemd-resolved.service was stopped and disabled, I edited the /etc/systemd/resolved.conf file as described. Then I tried again to start pihole-FTL.service, but it failed. I canceled modifications in resolved.conf, tried the second trick by editing /etc/dnsmasq.conf file, but pihole-FTL.service still failed to start.

Here is the answer of systemctl status pihole-FTL :

# systemctl status pihole-FTL
× pihole-FTL.service - Pi-hole FTLDNS engine
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pihole-FTL.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-08-04 15:32:18 CEST; 4s ago
    Process: 16998 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R pihole:pihole /etc/pihole (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 16999 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown root:root /etc/pihole/logrotate (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 17000 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pihole-FTL no-daemon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 17000 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 18ms

août 04 15:32:18 MSI-Manjaro systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
août 04 15:32:18 MSI-Manjaro systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
août 04 15:32:18 MSI-Manjaro systemd[1]: Stopped Pi-hole FTLDNS engine.
août 04 15:32:18 MSI-Manjaro systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
août 04 15:32:18 MSI-Manjaro systemd[1]: pihole-FTL.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
août 04 15:32:18 MSI-Manjaro systemd[1]: Failed to start Pi-hole FTLDNS engine.

And here is my config file /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf :

### This file contains parameters for FTL behavior.
### At install, all parameters are commented out. The user can select desired options.
### Options shown are the default configuration. No modification is needed for most
### installations.
### Visit https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/configfile/ for more detailed parameter explanations

## Out of documentation
LOGFILE=/run/log/pihole-ftl/pihole-FTL.log
PIDFILE=/run/pihole-ftl/pihole-FTL.pid
PORTFILE=/run/pihole-ftl/pihole-FTL.port
SOCKETFILE=/run/pihole-ftl/FTL.sock

## Socket Listening
## Listen only for local socket connections or permit all connections
## Options: localonly, all
SOCKET_LISTENING=localonly

## Query Display
## Display all queries? Set to no to hide query display
## Options: yes, no
QUERY_DISPLAY=yes

## AAA Query Analysis
## Allow FTL to analyze AAAA queries from pihole.log?
## Options: yes, no
AAAA_QUERY_ANALYSIS=yes

## Resolve IPv6
## Should FTL try to resolve IPv6 addresses to host names?
## Options: yes, no
RESOLVE_IPV6=yes

## Resolve IPv4
## Should FTL try to resolve IPv4 addresses to host names?
## Options: yes, no
RESOLVE_IPV4=yes

## Max Database Days
## How long should queries be stored in the database -days-?
## Setting this to 0 disables the database
## See: https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/database/
## Options: number of days
MAXDBDAYS=365

## Database Interval
## How often do we store queries in FTL's database -minutes-?
## See: https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/database/
## Options: number of minutes
DBINTERVAL=1.0

## Database File
## Specify path and filename of FTL's SQLite3 long-term database.
## Setting this to DBFILE= disables the database altogether
## See: https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/database/
## Option: path to db file
DBFILE=/etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db

## Max Log Age
## Up to how many hours of queries should be imported from the database and logs -hours-?
## Maximum is 744 -31 days-
## Options: number of days
MAXLOGAGE=24.0

## FTL Port
## On which port should FTL be listening?
## Options: tcp port
FTLPORT=4711

## Privacy Level
## Which privacy level is used?
## See: https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/privacylevels/
## Options: 0, 1, 2, 3
PRIVACYLEVEL=0

## Ignore Localhost
## Should FTL ignore queries coming from the local machine?
## Options: yes, no
IGNORE_LOCALHOST=no

## Blocking Mode
## How should FTL reply to blocked queries?
## See: https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/blockingmode/
## Options: NULL, IP-NODATA-AAAA, IP, NXDOMAIN
BLOCKINGMODE=NULL

## Regex Debug Mode
## Controls if FTLDNS should print extended details about regex matching into pihole-FTL.log.
## See: https://docs.pi-hole.net/ftldns/regex/overview/
## Options: true, false
REGEX_DEBUGMODE=false

I then installed lighttpd with all php7 required packages, they all work well together, but pihole-FTL.service persists in not working.

Does anyone could help me to make this service work ? Thanks a lot for your help !

[linux-aarhus]

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Thank you.

[PrimAvalou]

My bad ! I hoped I could get a quick answer from @anon8629588, the creator of the previous thread. So I changed my answer for him with a description of the whole issue.

[PrimAvalou]

I feel so stupid, I just randomly restarted my computer, and it worked… Beginner mistake !