Fing Desktop says I have no internet connection, but I do have internet connection

I_am_not_here

Hello,

I have a problem with the Fing Desktop app on my Windows10 PC. It says that I have no internet connection, but I actually have connection. I don't even need to have internet for what I'm using Fing for (I scan my LAN with it).

Could it be that Fing tries to reach a certain site to determine if it has internet connection? I recently installed Pi-Hole (an adblocker that works on DNS base). Maybe the link that Fing uses is somewhere in the lists, but I would want to know what I have to whitelist.

As you can see, the start speed test is clickable, but the see all devices is a lighter shade of blue and not clickable. If I click the speed test, the test actually runs.

Thanks in advance

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Marc

Hi @I_am_not_here, as a test try disabling pi_hole and see if it goers away.  Could be some site blocking causing this...

I_am_not_here

Hello @Marc
Thank you for the suggestion, but it still doesn't work. I closed Fing (made sure it was not in the task bar minimized). Then I disabled the Pi-Hole and started Fing again, without a change.

However, I have found something that does actually make it work again: change my IP address from Static to DHCP (I did set it static so I can reference only my PC and my smartphone to the Pi-Hole without affecting my entire network. I did the static IPs outside of the DHCP scope (the DHCP scope is x.x.1.2 --> x.x.1.63. I started the static IPs at x.x.1.100)

Do you have any idea why this behavior comes up? I even tried setting my DNS server back to my router (the way DHCP sets it), but that didn't work, only the actual change from static to DHCP did work.

Marc

I’m not familiar enough with how pi-hole works to be able to tell you.  Perhaps someone else from the forums can?