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

• ArbiterXero@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ya it’s the 255 one. Thanks to all the help on the thread I’ve managed to set my server IP outside of the DHCP range (I think) so in theory my issue should be fixed. I’ll know in 90 days when the IP addresses are renewed.

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• Osirus@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ya I’m on the same subnet

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    • Osirus@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Are you using https?

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      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah http://. Tried both but none worked. Probably going to need to factory reset my router to ensure there aren’t any unlisted networks that may be the admin one. I have a sneaking suspicion my current network setup is actually on a secondary network (which could be why I can’t log into it)

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• neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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