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

• 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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  • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Then that’s likely your issue.

    Your router occasionally gives out the ip of your pihole to someone else, and everything shuts the bed.

    Try picking x.x.x.254 as the pihole address or x.x.x.2

    Often routers won’t use either the top end or low end of the available addresses.

    The machines on your network that are dhcp, do they go below 100? Do they go above 200?

    You’re going to be guessing a little here.

    What is your “net mask”

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ya I’m pretty sure you’re correct here and this is my issue. Since I’m not able to log into my router and define my dhcp range, I’ve picked an IP near the end of the range (254).

      All my other devices are assigned .23, .25, etc.

      Fun learning experience haha

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      • ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your ip-mask will tell you what IPs are accessible on the network

        Likely goes nowhere because it’s probably 255.255.255.0 but it’s possible to be something else.

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  • Osirus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you on the same subnet as your router or are you on the subnet that your custom dhcp server is handing out? If your router is 192.168.1.1 and your ip is on the 192.168.2.x range, they aren’t going to be able to communicate.

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ya I’m on the same subnet

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      • Osirus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Are you using https?

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  • neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sucks, it’s be good if you could disable DHCP overall and do it on the PiHole.

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