# Can the Bind9 and pihole together running?

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**Created:** [July 27, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/can-the-bind9-and-pihole-together-running/21973 "2019-07-27T14:58:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![deHakkelaar](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/dehakkelaar/32/674_2.png) [@deHakkelaar](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/deHakkelaar)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/can-the-bind9-and-pihole-together-running/21973/9 "2019-07-28T18:20:10Z")

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Another option is to add another second IP address (IP aliasing) to the network interface:

> [@Can I install Pi-hole on my existing Web server?](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/can-i-install-pi-hole-on-my-existing-web-server/20669/2):
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> Yes you can depending on what other web daemon you have running now ? Looks like the blogger is not taking into account that Pi-hole will install the dhcpcd5 software package that deals with network settings and applying them. Configuring the /etc/network/interfaces file manually will conflict with dhcpcd5: pi@noads:~ $ apt show dhcpcd5 [..] Description: DHCPv4, IPv6RA and DHCPv6 client with IPv4LL support dhcpcd is a one stop network management daemon which includes \* RFC compliant DHCP…

If you bind the daemons (`pihole-FTL`, `named` from Bind9 etc) to the appropriate interfaces you can have two DNS servers running on the default port 53 but listening on different IP's.  
Same can be done if for example you want to run another web daemon (`nginx`, `apache2` etc) alongside Pi-hole's `lighttpd` daemon.

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