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

• fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I vote for 60 day lease time, iirc the clients try to get a new lease when half of the time is over, so they can keep the ip.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe, but I suspect it’s working like this:

    • Pi boots then requests locally configured IP from DHCP server
    • DHCP server grants 30 day lease for requested IP
    • Pihole runs fine for awhile, DNS requests are properly handled
    • IP lease expires, DHCP server returns IP to available address pool but doesn’t reassign it to anything yet
    • time passes
    • Random wireless device connects to router, DHCP server assigns IP to new device
    • DNS requests to Pihole fail because the IP was assigned to the recently connected wireless device

    This would explain why Pihole appears to cause problems every month, sometimes a little longer.

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• MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Basically, no static IPs at all. Lol

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