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Same except skipping AdGuard. Having the DNS live on a pi sounded like fun for me but it gave me stress due to power outages. There is safety in knowing you ar
by mrmuagi 2y ago
Same except skipping AdGuard.
Having the DNS live on a pi sounded like fun for me but it gave me stress due to power outages. There is safety in knowing you aren't adding a point of failure that only you know how to solve.
I also had issues with adding backup DNS, since a backup DNS would be queried if the pihole blocked the DNS query -- so I would have to maintain two seperate blocklists, one local and one offsite.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoI run AdGuard Home on the same device as my router, so anything that would take it down would also take down the entire router anyway.
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- martin_a 2y agoI think my PiHole is up for 3+ years on a Raspberry Pi dedicated to that task. Did not fail once since then, so not sure if "DNS is going down" is really an issue. But maybe I've got survivorship bias.
- brummm 2y agoLiving in a North American city with power wires being above ground, I have had so many power outages in the last five year, it was kind of a crazy thing to get used to. My Pi would not deal well with power outages when running through the SD card and so I stopped using it.
- sizzle 2y agoI ran it on an old laptop and never had issues. The extra ram and cpu + actual disk hd gave me ~99% uptime even after power outage no sd card corruption. Laptop auto rebooted on crash too.
- eldaisfish 2y agoI've had a raspberry pi and pihole going on the same SD card for approximately seven years now. I also regularly reboot the pi by simply cycling power. The solution was fairly simple. Send the linux log files to /dev/null (or whatever it is actually called, i.e. RAM) and disable query logging in pihole. That's it. Helps greatly!
- mrmuagi 2y agoI live in Vancouver BC, we have a power outage every 1-2 years due to high winds or fallen power poles. I noticed some devices on my home network whilst connected to power have power quality issues too, no doubt a UPS would help here.
- distances 2y agoWhat's the concern about power outages? My Pi-hole is back online much faster than my router.
- weirdkid 2y agoBut you don’t have to run pi-hole on a pi. I run it in an Ubuntu Linux container on my Proxmox server.
- sph 2y agoDNS issues during power outages is the least of your problems, as chances are your Internet and all your PCs are down as well.
- 10729287 2y agoAlso, having two Raspberry Pi for primary and secondary dns is good practice, in case something goes wrong with the main one.
- sph 2y agoWhy not run pi-hole in one of those kubernetes cluster for Raspberry Pi, and don't forget a set up a UPS for redundant power supply. Or: in the rare eventuality that your raspberry pi dies, it takes 15 seconds to open your router interface and reset to the ISP DNS. Work smart, not hard.
- 10729287 2y agoI dare you to tell my wife how easy it is. I still remember OpenDNS being blocked in France the exact day I went for business trip and me not anticipating it (I didn't remember it was set in pi-hole)