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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/selfhosted
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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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[–] Xanthrax 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are we getting a repeat of the guy who's wifi didn't work because of a smart bulb?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, smart bulbs run rogue dhcp servers now?

[–] Xanthrax 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're called too-smart bulbs, now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I assume the issue was the bulb was getting assigned by DHCP the same address that was supposed to be reserved for their PC, thus their wifi appearing not to work for their PC.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha not quite. Sounds like an interesting post though. I’ll have to look that one up. From all the help given to me here though it looks like my “static” ip is within dhcp range so my router is giving everyone else my key to the castle and therefore invalidating my key.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yea, duplicate IP addresses lead to some funny business. Toss a coin to see if a network packet will arrive basically.

The solution is to adjust the DHCP range or use static DHCP on the router. The latter just means that the router will assign the same IP to the specified computer every time.

[–] whynotzoidberg 2 points 1 year ago

Oh my, I didn’t catch that one but will be searching for it!

I love* solving wonky user issues. People do the darndest things.

*Subject to tolerance and patience levels of both user and self

[–] CazRaX 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds horrible.