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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 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Pihole lives on my server computer and so the DNS is the same IP address as that computer

[–] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Irrelevant, unless your pihole is running on your DHCP server. Does the server running pihole have a statically assigned IP that is within the DHCP range being assigned to other devices?

Static addresses should be outside of your DHCP range, ideally. If you can’t change the range, and assuming sequential handouts of IPs from your router among other things, you can try setting the server’s static IP to a bigger number.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] RajaGila@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, smart bulbs run rogue dhcp servers now?

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're called too-smart bulbs, now.