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.

  • ShortN0teEnglish
    71·
    9 months ago

    Simple: Privacy. The DNS Server of you choosing sees every single domain you are visiting.

    Having a own DNS Server allows you to hide varies queries from big DNS providers.

    Additional you gain shorter latencies for cached request if you have set it up right.

    AND when you have local services you probably have a horizon splitting DNS anyway so setting up a pihole vs something like DNSmasq is not much hassle anyway.

      • ShortN0teEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        Which is why NextDNS allows you to decide if DNS requests get logged or not, for how long, on which country, and with encryption.

        You have to trust that statement and company since you can’t verify it.

        Hardly relevant nowadays.

        With the hundreds of DNS requests that a modern websites requires, it is more relevant then ever. For browsing DNS latency is for more important then dowload or upload speed.