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The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content without installing any client-side software.

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Pi-Hole and Virgin Media Hub 5 (lazysoci.al)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/pihole

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Anyone using this set-up? Before I sort out my router, I'm kinda stuck with it. I can get it to work by connecting my PiHole, disabling DHCP and then reconnecting all devices manually. Only issue is that if anything happens to cause the PiHole machine to lose connection, no other device can connect to the router.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't have Virgin Media Hub, but my pihole has been configured as the DHCP server for years.

The PI's Lan cable is connected directly to the router, so connectivity isn't an issue. I rarely restart it except for routine maintenance, but yes if the PiHole goes down, then everything starts to throw connection errors. This is expected. If the router was the DHCP server and the router goes down, then you would also lose internet.

However, since it's separate from the router, if you ever do need to take it offline, you can always explicitly set the IP configuration on a computer to bypass the pihole temporarily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If that's your setup, you could add a switch before the router so that you would still have LAN access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks. Everything is still really new to me, so I'm kinda feeling around and making sure I'm doing everything correctly.