Enable dhcp + reboot == dead

[jerry_nz]

Hey there!

I have just discovered pi-hole and i love the idea behind it. Alas I am struggling with one piece of my puzzle.

I have searched both in here and on google, but I can't seem to find the goods. Being new to this (and a bit crap at networking) I'm likely searching the wrong terms... apologies if so!

Expected Behaviour:

I am enabling the dhcp server within pihole so I can view per device information, I then disable my routers dhcp server. Everything works fine. I can also enter some static dhcp leases into the pihole.
When i reboot, i would expect the system to return to normal operation.. but...

hardware:
pihole installed on: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2
router is: stock rt-ac68u

Actual Behaviour:

The actual behaviour is the system returns looking like the attached image. I then have to undo router settings, and re-enable DHCP on router (so i can make this post!)

I'm just beginning to debug in earnest, but if there is any tips/tricks out there already then I'm all ears!

Thanks!
Jery_nz

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/x9bypomjt3

[yubiuser]

The pihole-FTL engine (the dns server part of pihole) is not running.

Are there any errors in

/var/log/pihole-FTL.log

Try a manual restart

pihole restartdns

[jerry_nz]

since posting my message and it being approved - i figured it out!

it turns out when i was setting static ip's within the dhcp tab having an underscore as the first character in the name is bad. i removed them and I'm golden

For others who may stumble upon this, i ran:
sudo service pihole-FTL status

which gave me this output:

cracking open the mentioned file, found the line, and noticed the likely culprit.

I was naming them funky like that as my router had lost the naming for some reason so i was copying over the static ips to the pi and labelling them as "_need_to_check_"

LOL

thanks!