Comment on I’m about to throw my entire Pihole out the window

Dhar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • RajaGila@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wait, smart bulbs run rogue dhcp servers now?

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      • whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world ⁨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

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      • CazRaX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That sounds horrible.

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    • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The static address should be assigned from the dhcp server.

      Assigning a static address on the nic is a recipe for issues.

      Set up a static assignment in your dhcp server.

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      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not able to log into my router in order to edit any of my dhcp settings 😭 little caveat there.

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hm interesting. Basically my server is a windows computer (ya windows is not a good server OS I know, was lazy and experimenting) and in the windows network settings I assigned it a static IP that was within my DHCP range.

      I wasn’t aware you could set it outside the range but this makes sense that it should be outside of the range so that my router doesn’t give my servers IP address to something else.

      As you can tell I’m not super knowledgeable about networking but your help is making things make more sense. I appreciate it!

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        windows network settings

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      • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That definitely sounds like you’ve found the issue, hopefully changing the IP solves it!

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