Can't SSH into Raspi zero w after pihole install

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First I did a fresh headless setup on raspi zero w using Debian Bookworm lite (confirmed working). Next I Installed pihole using SSH using curl.

The raspi no longer responds to SSH or ping requests, and has never responded to the pihole admin interface at 192.168.1.49:80/admin

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This is an Operating System level issue.

Pi-hole is not involved in SSH connections.

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How can it not? Device is connected to my network (e.g. responds to ping) before installation of Pihole, but not after.

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Pi-hole is a DNS server.
It is only involved when you use domain/hostname to connect.

If you used Ping and SSH with IP (like most users do), Pi-hole won't be involved.

This is probably a network configuration issue.

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I do not understand. I can ping, and connect to my fresh headless rpi at 192.168.1.49 via ssh. After I install pihole on that device, I can neither ping it or ssh. After Pihole install, according to the router, the rpi is apparently no longer on my network.

I haven't made any changes to the network dns setting because I can't access the Pihole equipped rpi. I don't understand how the act of installing Pihole changes the network configuration.

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It doesn't. Something else appears to be causing the problem.

If you can connect a monitor and keyboard to the Pi, then please do so and then

Please upload a debug log and post just the token URL that is generated after the log is uploaded by running the following command from the Pi-hole host terminal:

pihole -d
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Hi West_Satsop,
this is a confirmation that your Pi Zero is not part in your network (Lan or Wifi).
A device which is not in your network can't be pinged or addressed. I believe you know that, too.

So please check your Pi Zero with a monitor (arrgh... missing cable/monitor?) or just do a re-install which might offer the fastest solution in your case.

I also have a Pi Zero WH which works well unter bookworm/PH v6. No issues encountered.

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Did you configure this as a static IP address on the Pi?

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