Pi-hole DNS service is not running after Update the list of ad-serving domains

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@cliff1970

Many times after 'pihole -g' the DNS service crashes or stops.

Do you see actual crashed in /var/log/pihole-FTL.log?

There were reports of FTL stopping after pihole -g (or the weekly gravity update). It has been associated with counting the number of entries in the database.

DNS resolution unexpectedly stops after upgrade to 5.0

Please follow the below template, it will help us to help you! If you are Experiencing issues with a Pi-hole install that has non-standard elements (e.g you are using nginx instead of lighttpd, or there is some other aspect of your install that is customised) - please use the Community Help category. Expected Behaviour: DNS resolution should work continuously. Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3 OS: Raspbian 9.11 Actual Behaviour: Periodically pihole will stop responding to DNS quer…