Every month or so all my devices lose internet and the only way to connect them all back is to disconnect them from the DNS server that Pihole is running.
I set my Pihole to have a static IP but for some reason after around a month or maybe longer, it just fails. This has happened 4 times over the last while and the only fix is to essentially uninstall everything on my Pihole, disable it, and then reconfigure it from scratch again.
I’m not sure what’s going on so any help would be appreciated.
I really don’t understand running PiHole when services like NextDNS exist. They have every feature your PiHole would have (encryption, whitelists, blacklists, tracker blocking, and much more), can be used on any device, and won’t require maintenance or electricity costs.
Well in my case it’s due to me just not knowing that this other stuff exists and primarily wanting to Adblock with a piece of software that’s well known and well documented as I’m very noob at self hosting and networking 😛 I’ll have to take a look at those other services you’ve mentioned.
Just fyi so you can hate me more, I’m running Pihole on Windows using WSL.
Oh no hate at all, I actually encourage you to try your hand at exploring your own solutions.
But if they’re giving you more trouble than the problem they were supposed to fix to begin with, it’s good to be reminded that there’s nothing wrong with using something built by someone else and that commercially relies on not having issues. This community will downvote and reply as if anything not self hosted is the devil reincarnated, but you know what, it’s safe and works.
All good I appreciate all the help and advice from the community here, even if some are politely telling me I’m an idiot lmao. Comes with technical communities so downvotes and the like don’t phase me (considering you can make a post, downvote yourself, then reliably start a downvote train even if there’s nothing wrong with the comment).
Simple: Privacy. The DNS Server of you choosing sees every single domain you are visiting.
Having a own DNS Server allows you to hide varies queries from big DNS providers.
Additional you gain shorter latencies for cached request if you have set it up right.
AND when you have local services you probably have a horizon splitting DNS anyway so setting up a pihole vs something like DNSmasq is not much hassle anyway.
Which is why NextDNS allows you to decide if DNS requests get logged or not, for how long, on which country, and with encryption.
You have to trust that statement and company since you can’t verify it.
Hardly relevant nowadays.
With the hundreds of DNS requests that a modern websites requires, it is more relevant then ever. For browsing DNS latency is for more important then dowload or upload speed.
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I really don’t understand running PiHole when services like NextDNS exist. They have every feature your PiHole would have (encryption, whitelists, blacklists, tracker blocking, and much more), can be used on any device, and won’t require maintenance or electricity costs.
Can I add custom DNS forwarding rules to NextDNS? Because I need that for my internal network.
I mean, it’s SelfHosted afterall.
Sir, this is the @selfhosted community.
Well in my case it’s due to me just not knowing that this other stuff exists and primarily wanting to Adblock with a piece of software that’s well known and well documented as I’m very noob at self hosting and networking 😛 I’ll have to take a look at those other services you’ve mentioned.
Just fyi so you can hate me more, I’m running Pihole on Windows using WSL.
Oh no hate at all, I actually encourage you to try your hand at exploring your own solutions.
But if they’re giving you more trouble than the problem they were supposed to fix to begin with, it’s good to be reminded that there’s nothing wrong with using something built by someone else and that commercially relies on not having issues. This community will downvote and reply as if anything not self hosted is the devil reincarnated, but you know what, it’s safe and works.
All good I appreciate all the help and advice from the community here, even if some are politely telling me I’m an idiot lmao. Comes with technical communities so downvotes and the like don’t phase me (considering you can make a post, downvote yourself, then reliably start a downvote train even if there’s nothing wrong with the comment).
Its literally a single docker compose up command and one time log in to your router and changing the DNS.
You act like its some crazy complicated thing lol
Nothing about my comment talks about it being complicated
Simple: Privacy. The DNS Server of you choosing sees every single domain you are visiting.
Having a own DNS Server allows you to hide varies queries from big DNS providers.
Additional you gain shorter latencies for cached request if you have set it up right.
AND when you have local services you probably have a horizon splitting DNS anyway so setting up a pihole vs something like DNSmasq is not much hassle anyway.
Which is why NextDNS allows you to decide if DNS requests get logged or not, for how long, on which country, and with encryption.
Hardly relevant nowadays.
Anyway, I was making a suggestion to an user growing increasingly frustrated with trying to host their own DNS resolver using a tiny ARM board.
You have to trust that statement and company since you can’t verify it.
With the hundreds of DNS requests that a modern websites requires, it is more relevant then ever. For browsing DNS latency is for more important then dowload or upload speed.