DHCP server not supplying address to Raspberry Pi

NETWORKING SOLUTIONS
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I am trying to connect a Raspberry Pi to the network wit PiHole installed so I can use this as my DNS server.

I should add that this is my first Teltonika Router so I’m still learning!

The router is a RUTX-50 and has the latest firmware (modem too)

The Raspberry Pi is a Pi Zero 2-W which will only work on the 2.4Ghz frequency and is a headless device.

I connected the Pi to my laptop via Ethernet, pinged it by hostname to get the IP, SSH in to edit the wpa supplicant config and gave it the details of a 2.4GHZ test network I created on the RUTX-50

I can see it connect and disconnect from the Teltonika interface (Status/Network) but it isn’t recognising the hostname and it isn’t assigning an IP address.

The top line in the image below is my laptop, the second line is the Raspberry Pi.

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The MAC address seems to be showing correctly and my laptop connects to the SSID correctly and is assigned an IP

Is this a bug or have I missed some configuration somewhere?

(I’m also surprised that I can’t see anyone else having successfully paired a Pi-Hole with a Teltonika router - but that’s a different question)

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I have tested this further but always with the same result.

However, one thing I have noticed is that the Teltonika interface continues to show the Raspberry Pi as a connected wireless client even after I power it (the Pi) off.

The only way I’ve found to clear it from the list is to reboot the RUTX-50.

If I try connecting the Pi via ethernet to the RUTX-50 then it recognises the hostname and assigns a DHCP lease so it seems it’s an issue with the WiFi interface somehow.

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in case it is helpful to someone in future, I resolved this by wiping the Pi and doing a clean install

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Sadly this didn’t last.

Today I added some new Wireless interfaces on the RUTX-50 and doing this somehow seems to have corrupted the connection to the Pi (which is connecting on a different pre-existing interface).

It lost both hostname and IP address until I rebooted.

The MAC address of the Pi is used to assign a static lease and on rebooting both devices I was able to re-establish this, but the hostname is no longer recognised.

While I can work around it, it does sound like a bug in the Teltonika software as the Pi was working perfectly and has not been changed since then.

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