# Internet randomly stops working. Pihole looks OK. Rebooting pi fixes things. Any ideas?

**URL:** https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/internet-randomly-stops-working-pihole-looks-ok-rebooting-pi-fixes-things-any-ideas/55038
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**Created:** [April 23, 2022, 4:18am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/internet-randomly-stops-working-pihole-looks-ok-rebooting-pi-fixes-things-any-ideas/55038 "2022-04-23T04:18:05Z")
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### Author: ![Bucking\_Horn](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/bucking_horn/32/18719_2.png) [@Bucking\_Horn](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/Bucking_Horn)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/internet-randomly-stops-working-pihole-looks-ok-rebooting-pi-fixes-things-any-ideas/55038/13 "2022-05-05T08:03:09Z")

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You didn't answer me directly, but still it's my turn to apologise - I didn't catch that previous statement of yours about you disabling the wifi connection. 😉

In that case, your Pi-hole may still hold on to a previous DHCP lease for that `.105` when your wifi was still active, which it may keep renewing as that client's associated MAC address would still show up on the `eth0` link.

Please check:

```auto
grep -c raspberrypi /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases

```

```auto
grep -c 192.168.2.105 /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases

```

If that returns a count of 1 or more, please try:

```auto
sudo systemctl stop pihole-FTL.service

```

```auto
sudo nano /etc/pihole/dhcp.leases

```

Delete the line(s) containing the name and IP address.

```auto
sudo systemctl start pihole-FTL.service

```

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