I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months 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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[-] merikus@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I just want to reiterate what others have said: do some googling about your router make and model. Look for the instructions for “hard reset” or “factory reset”. Follow those instructions. Once you do, you should be able to find the default login online.

Once you’re able to log into your router, I’d suggest keeping it as your DHCP server and simply following the instructions to set up a pihole with it. Everything seems to work more smoothly without the pihole as DHCP server.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Ya a factory resets pretty much the only thing I haven’t tried yet and it’s simply because I don’t want to have to reset up all my lights and smart devices but I fear that might need to happen.

I don’t think I have my Pihole set up to by my dhcp server, just my dns

[-] merikus@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You can avoid that by using the same Wi-Fi network name and password that your current network uses. Your devices won’t know the difference.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Gotcha. That makes sense!

[-] merikus@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Good luck. I literally went through something similar a few weeks ago. It took a little time but my entire network runs better now. You got this!

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Thank ya! Networking is very confusing for me and I’ve been tinkering on windows and Linux machines for decades 🤪 always something to learn

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