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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[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I would HIGHLY recommend that for something as essential as DNS, you should be running it on its own hardware. Considering, as you’ve experienced, that any issues result in a complete loss of normal access to the internet.

You can run pihole on something as small as a Raspberry Pi zero w, then just set it with a static IP and forget about it.

Considering you said you’re currently using WSL I suspect there is an extra layer of networking bullshit that is breaking your routing. If you haven’t already looked at this document, it might have the information you need https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/networking#accessing-windows-networking-apps-from-linux-host-ip

But for the sake of stable DNS services you will thank yourself for just getting a dedicated device of any power level to ONLY handle DNS.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 points 11 months ago

I'm very happy with my little PiHole on a Pi Zero 2 W running DietPi, easy set up and then you can just forget about it apart from periodic updates. No issue with it being via WiFi either, which makes placing it much easier.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Where does he mention wsl?

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Down in a reply to some other comments https://lemmy.ca/comment/3915756

I am horrified, but equally impressed 😂

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