diff --git a/advanced/Scripts/pihole-reenable.sh b/advanced/Scripts/pihole-reenable.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..93ec3b95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/advanced/Scripts/pihole-reenable.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
+# (c) 2020 Pi-hole, LLC (https://pi-hole.net)
+# Network-wide ad blocking via your own hardware.
+#
+# This file is copyright under the latest version of the EUPL.
+# Please see LICENSE file for your rights under this license.
+#
+#
+# The pihole disable command has the option to set a specified time before
+# blocking is automatically re-enabled.
+#
+# Present script is responsible for the sleep & re-enable part of the job and
+# is automatically terminated if it is still running when pihole is enabled by
+# other means.
+#
+# This ensures that pihole ends up in the correct state after a sequence of
+# commands suchs as: `pihole disable 30s; pihole enable; pihole disable`
+
+readonly PI_HOLE_BIN_DIR="/usr/local/bin"
+
+sleep "${1}"
+"${PI_HOLE_BIN_DIR}"/pihole enable
diff --git a/pihole b/pihole
index 065fb385..b0ba8473 100755
--- a/pihole
+++ b/pihole
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Time:
           local str="Disabling blocking for ${tt} seconds"
           echo -e "  ${INFO} ${str}..."
           local str="Blocking will be re-enabled in ${tt} seconds"
-          nohup bash -c "sleep ${tt}; ${PI_HOLE_BIN_DIR}/pihole enable" </dev/null &>/dev/null &
+          nohup "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/pihole-reenable.sh ${tt} </dev/null &>/dev/null &
         else
           local error=true
         fi
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Time:
           echo -e "  ${INFO} ${str}..."
           local str="Blocking will be re-enabled in ${tt} minutes"
           tt=$((${tt}*60))
-          nohup bash -c "sleep ${tt}; ${PI_HOLE_BIN_DIR}/pihole enable" </dev/null &>/dev/null &
+          nohup "${PI_HOLE_SCRIPT_DIR}"/pihole-reenable.sh ${tt} </dev/null &>/dev/null &
         else
           local error=true
         fi
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ Time:
     fi
   else
     # Enable Pi-hole
+    killall -q pihole-reenable
     if grep -cq "BLOCKING_ENABLED=true" "${setupVars}"; then
       echo -e "  ${INFO} Blocking already enabled, nothing to do"
       exit 0