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.
The fact you’re not able to log into your router is the first problem you need to solve here. If you’re having network issues, the router is always the first thing that needs to be working perfectly. Otherwise whatever else is going on is probably being affected by the router in some way.
What you’re doing right now is sort of like saying “Hey, does anyone know how to get this bad smell out of my car? Nothing I do seems to work. Oh, BTW, the engine is on fire, it’s been like that for a while, I don’t know how to put it out. Anyway, so the thing with this smell is…”
My take was that there was some corrupted setting that wouldn’t let me access the router as I’m having no other network issues but you’re right in that I wouldn’t have any of these issues if I could just log into the router and actually properly set a static IP.
Figured I’d ask the void if they recognized the smell since there are people much smarter than me out there