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I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by 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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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Taking a look at your Pihole logs is going to be helpful. Also knowing what kind of device is running the Pihole software may also help.

I had Pihole running on a raspberry pi 3 years ago, and I had pretty consistent issues. I've run it on other hardware since without a problem.

It could be an issue with the SD card, if you're using a raspberry pi. I've also read that the log file can grow large enough to cause issues with your Pihole instance.

So there are a number of possibilities.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I’ll have to take a peak at the logs. I’ve been running the server nearly headless but with this issue I cannot access my server over my lan so I’m going to have to physically plug a screen and keyboard into it later.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One last piece of advice: Pihole has great support. I've gotten a ton of answers and assistance from the Pihole Sub on Reddit. I don't know if it's still active since the migration away from Reddit, but you may ask.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’d rather ask here and start building up the knowledge base off Reddit but you’re right.

    I think I know my problem though (something I’m not able to fix aaaaa)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What’s the other hardware you run it on without issues?

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