Comment on When Pi-hole is down?
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 9 months ago
If your DNS sinkhole is down, your settings should allow a fallback. If you didn't set that up and don't know how, then you should consider not using Pihole until you know what you're doing.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 9 months ago
When it comes to a “secondary”DNS… there is nothing like a primary and secondary DNS server. These indications are quite misleading but many systems adopted it this way. Pihole only list the DNS servers as primary and secondary, because this is what the providers write on their pages. The bad phrasing is supported especially by how Windows handles it.
Most operating systems implement DNS servers as alternatives, not as fallbacks, i.e. they will query any of both servers from time to time, so it is quite likely that you will loose your Pi-hole filtering capabilities (at least partially) [if you specify a secondary DNS server on your network].
The ONLY DNS server you should have set on your network is a/the PiHole(s).
Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You still should set two dns servers… Two piholes/adguards