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I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Every month or so all my devices lose internet and the only way to connect them all back is to disconnect them from the DNS server that Pihole is running.

I set my Pihole to have a static IP but for some reason after around a month or maybe longer, it just fails. This has happened 4 times over the last while and the only fix is to essentially uninstall everything on my Pihole, disable it, and then reconfigure it from scratch again.

I’m not sure what’s going on so any help would be appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (31 children)

Irrelevant, unless your pihole is running on your DHCP server. Does the server running pihole have a statically assigned IP that is within the DHCP range being assigned to other devices?

Static addresses should be outside of your DHCP range, ideally. If you can’t change the range, and assuming sequential handouts of IPs from your router among other things, you can try setting the server’s static IP to a bigger number.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The static address should be assigned from the dhcp server.

Assigning a static address on the nic is a recipe for issues.

Set up a static assignment in your dhcp server.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I’m not able to log into my router in order to edit any of my dhcp settings 😭 little caveat there.

[–] Osirus 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you on the same subnet as your router or are you on the subnet that your custom dhcp server is handing out? If your router is 192.168.1.1 and your ip is on the 192.168.2.x range, they aren't going to be able to communicate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ya I’m on the same subnet

[–] Osirus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you using https?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah http://. Tried both but none worked. Probably going to need to factory reset my router to ensure there aren’t any unlisted networks that may be the admin one. I have a sneaking suspicion my current network setup is actually on a secondary network (which could be why I can’t log into it)

[–] Osirus 1 points 1 year ago

Isolate a pc with the router and download advanced ip scanner. It will list all active ips and there should only be 2

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