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i'd love a pihole, but networking has always been a bit of a blindspot for me. i never really understand what i'm doing, and when things break it's a game of gu
by parpfish 1y ago
i'd love a pihole, but networking has always been a bit of a blindspot for me. i never really understand what i'm doing, and when things break it's a game of guess'n'check which stackoverflow/gpt answer will fix it.
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.
- 3abiton 1y agoI 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.
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoIt 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.
- bongodongobob 1y agoDid you not give the pihole a static address or something? What is breaking?
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoNo idea, it barely works.
- bongodongobob 1y agoThen there's something wrong with your network. All it does is serve DNS.
- eldaisfish 1y agopihole is one of the most straightforward pieces of software out there. It is so easy to use that it is practically an appliance.
- gosub100 1y ago"it's always DNS"
- danparsonson 1y agoWhat 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?
- happyhacks 1y agoDon'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
- bongodongobob 1y agoIt'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.
- blooalien 1y agoYeah, 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).
- bongodongobob 1y agoIf you've set static IPs, I don't see how picking where DNS comes from is out of your wheelhouse.