this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
85 points (84.6% liked)

Selfhosted

39980 readers
781 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a chance that the dhcp server on your router actually hand out the same ip address to other client, causing the pi to become inaccessible due to ip address conflict. Assigning the static ip address from the router will prevent this issue.

If your router is from your ISP, maybe you can ask them to give you access to the lan configuration options. ISP routers usually have two accounts, the full admin account which usually aren't handed out to their subscribers, and a user account that would let their subscriber configure various lan settings.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At one point my router would let me log into it using its IP address but now it does not let me no matter what IP I type.

This all would have been much simpler had I been able to log in and set a static IP on my home server from there and disabled DHCP 🤪

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

What's the router's brand and model? Googling it might give you the answer. The administrative page for the router might be hosted on custom ports instead of port 80.

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

Yeah I tried doing that initially. It’s a Bell Homehub3000 and all the login addresses suggested online that I tried were no dice. I probably have to factory reset the router but that would mean redoing my entire smarthome and IOT setup which I’m really not looking to do 😅

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's suck. I actually had similar issues where the router's login page would refuse to log me in, even though I actually can login to the router using SSH. No other fix but to reset the router and start again, but time I export the router's settings (most router has settings import/export feature) after I got everything setup so I don't have to do it from scratch when the router crap out again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For me it’s as if there is no router login page which is kiiiiiilling me haha. All of my silly issues would be gone if I could just set a hard static IP for my server 😄