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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago

When Pi-hole is down?

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When Pi-hole is down?

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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago

I have an asus router with a pi-hole on the network.

I was doing some work on my server and noticed that when pi-hole was down, I couldn’t access the internet. I was looking for some ideas online how to deal with this, but they said to have a second pihole on the network in case one is offline. Is that the only way to do it? Is there any way to have the network go back to normal if the pihole is offline?

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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).
- @EpicVision@monero.town
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  1•10 months ago
  Damn, fuck Windows. Fortunately I don’t have to use it.
  
  The ONLY DNS server you should have set on your network is a/the PiHole(s).
  
  That’s exactly what I do, since I never had any stability issues with my Pihole.
  - @AtariDump@lemmy.world
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    2•10 months ago
    It’s not just windows.

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