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I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hm interesting. Basically my server is a windows computer (ya windows is not a good server OS I know, was lazy and experimenting) and in the windows network settings I assigned it a static IP that was within my DHCP range.

I wasn’t aware you could set it outside the range but this makes sense that it should be outside of the range so that my router doesn’t give my servers IP address to something else.

As you can tell I’m not super knowledgeable about networking but your help is making things make more sense. I appreciate it!

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago

That definitely sounds like you've found the issue, hopefully changing the IP solves it!

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

windows network settings

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haha yeah a big strong network person would be running proxmox or Ubuntu server or Debian or something and having a better time. I’m my defense, I’m both lazy and stupid so while (almost) everything is working, I’m keeping windows

[–] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing wrong with a Windows box as your server. Use what you know. Windows skills are a great asset in the world.

This issue is OS-independent, meaning you would have the same problem on a Raspberry Pi as you did on your Windows box.

GLHF

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's definitely more difficult when you don't have control over the DHCP server. Is it part of a router provided by your ISP?

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah the router is provided by the ISP and it has very limited options on it but it is running the DHCP server.