No IPv4 or IPv6

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Having set up a Pi Hole on my own home network, my grandparents requested I do the same. Just got a brand new pi, installed the June 2018 version of Raspian Jessie, and installed PiHole, attempted to set it as the DNS server for my grandparents' wifi

However, I haven't been able to get it to work as a DNS. When I change the router settings to use the pi, it just won't load anything. When I run the debug log, it says that there's no IPv4 or IPv6. I understand why that's a problem, but I have no idea how to fix it.

Debug token is 31lgq3rumv

Thank you!

Addendum:
I've gone into the /etc/dhcpcd.conf file to see if there seems to be anything wrong in there, but it looks good to me, it reads as follows (leaving out a lot of the comments and whatnot)

interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.1.10/24
static routers=192.168.1.1
static domain_name_servers=127.0.0.1

Additionally, I went into /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf and it has

IPV4_ADDRESS=192.168.1.10/24
IPV6_ADDRESS=

So I clearly don't have IPv6 set up, but IPv4 should at least be working?

Another addendum:
I restarted the router and the pi, and it appears that my pi hasn't successfully been able to be set as a static IP address. When I run sudo ifconfig, the results show that the pi's local address is now 192.168.1.6. The things in dhcpcd.conf and setupVars.conf are still the same as previously reported.

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Pi-Hole needs a static or reserved IP address, so all the clients can find it at that fixed address. This Pi-Hole does not appear to have a reserved IP address.

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Networking
    [✗] No IPv4 address(es) found on the eth0 interface.
    [✗] No IPv6 address(es) found on the eth0 interface.
    [i] Default IPv4 gateway: 192.168.1.1
       * Pinging 192.168.1.1...
    [✗] Gateway did not respond. (https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/why-is-a-default-gateway-important-for-pi-hole/3546)

On the router, find the Pi and assign the Pi a static or reserved IP 192.168.0.10 (this is the IP that Pi-Hole is looking for). After this, restart pihole-FTL with this command from the Pi terminal:

sudo service pihole-FTL restart

Was there any particular reason you chose Jessie over Stretch?

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Thanks for your response!

Just added added the address reservation of the pi to the router and the pi appears to be using the correct ip address now, but I get the same Networking errors on the debugger. Any other routes I could explore?

There wasn't really a reason I picked Jessie over Stretch, just for variety I guess. I used Stretch for my Operating Systems and Concurrency class in school and my home network Pi-hole, so I wanted to try something new.

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Jessie is the older version, so you're trying something old

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Upload another debug log, post the token and we'll take a look.

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Sorry about that, here's the debug token: 8antvygtdo

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Still the same, no change in the debug log.

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I'm as confused as you are.

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Try this:

pihole -r and select reconfigure option. Select the reserved IP that the Pi has from the router.

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Sorry I wasn't able to respond to the last message in a timely fashion, as mentioned I'm trying to set up this pihole for someone else at a different location. I just tried reconfiguring the pi and I used the reserved IP, but it doesn't seem to have changed anything.

The debug token is ssprwc8v5z

I'll also note that I double checked that I've got the static ip address set up correctly, and I can't see anything wrong with how the static ip is set up. It's in the router and it gets the ip address I set for it when I restart the router or the pi.

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That still does not have an IP assigned. How is the device connected to the network (ethernet, wifi, etc)? Right now, the settings are set to use the ethernet connection.

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