I started like you, but slowly with more debugging and customized use-cases I started understanding more and more. That's the way for people with limited free time. That said, now with LLMs, honestly anything is easily learnable.
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by TechDebtDevin on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:21PM
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It still shouldnt break all the time. You shouldnt havr to get good at debugging a tool like this. I use but it dors destroy my network once a month and have had to build cleanup/reinstall scripts for this scenerio. I would not recommend to most people.
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by bongodongobob on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:36PM
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Did you not give the pihole a static address or something? What is breaking?
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by TechDebtDevin on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:58PM
(#43897685)
No idea, it barely works.
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by bongodongobob on Monday May 05, 2025 @03:40PM
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Then there's something wrong with your network. All it does is serve DNS.
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by eldaisfish on Monday May 05, 2025 @03:43PM
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pihole is one of the most straightforward pieces of software out there. It is so easy to use that it is practically an appliance.
"it's always DNS"
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by danparsonson on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:56PM
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What do you mean 'destroys your network'? It's just a DNS server - maybe something else is wrong and the presence of the pihole is a coincidence?
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by happyhacks on Monday May 05, 2025 @11:24PM
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Don't know about your network - but I have been running it for years without any issue, just a docker pull to update the containers once a while
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by bongodongobob on Monday May 05, 2025 @01:34PM
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It's very straightforward. You set the IP of the pinhole for DNS in the settings of whatever is doing DHCP on your network. That's it.
Yeah, and set the IP of the PiHole as DNS for any device you've set static network settings on as well, but yes, it is indeed "very straightforward" for anyone that's able to set up their local network (or able to ask a "nerdy" friend or family member to do it for 'em).
Re:The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole
by bongodongobob on Monday May 05, 2025 @11:37PM
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If you've set static IPs, I don't see how picking where DNS comes from is out of your wheelhouse.
these walkthroughs always make it look easy, but no matter how easy the set up is you can't escape the fact that you're adding a layer of complexity to the network and i just don't want to maintain it. i fully expect that there'd be some weird conflicts that come up with work VPNs and I'd just have to disable it because i don't know what i'm doing.