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.
This is the way. Although, to clarify, you should assign static IPs on your DHCP server, which for most SOHO networks, that’s going to be your router.
If you assign statics on your hosts, your DHCP server will assign them the preferred address if available, but if it’s already assigned then the DHCP server is going to give your device the middle finger and assign them whatever the fuck it wants.
Not sure if I’m misunderstanding you, but the router/DHCP server doesn’t assign an IP at all to a host that you’ve assigned statically. Any given host can be statically assigned or use DHCP, not both.
The real problem with statically assigning IPs to hosts, is that your DHCP server won’t know that and could give a new device the same IP address as your statically assigned host, causing an IP conflict, if you statically assigned the host with an IP that’s inside the DHCP scope.
What you have to do is only assign static IPs that are outside the DHCP scope, or set all hosts to use DHCP and then use reservations in your DHCP server to make sure they get the same one each time.
Probably a bit of both to be honest. Thanks for clarifying.