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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] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I’m assuming my router is acting like a DHCP server as it’s all on default settings and my other devices are handed an IP address something like 192.168.5.xx

I’m not able to log into my router anymore (tried all the ways: 192.168.2.1, 1.2, 5.1, etc) so you’re probably correct that with both dhcp servers up and running they’re probably conflicting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

With Pihole off, look for your gateway address. That will be your router address. Are you using windows on your usual pc? Ipconfig command should show you your gateway, easily.

Then tap that into your browser to log in to your router and deactivate dhcp from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ya that was something I tried initially, looking up the default gateway using ipconfig and then trying that address.

It didn’t work before but maybe this time I’ll try again, ensuring that piholes not running.

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

Use https://x.x.x.x not http://

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Tried both. Usually http:// is the one that works for me for my other services on different ports. It’s very likely a conflict with my routers dhcp 🙃

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