Pi-hole stopped working after some time

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Expected Behaviour:

I've installed pi-hole on a Beaglebone black using their debian based image.

After all config was done following this tutorial https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/txaw23/pihole_on_beaglebone_black_the_uptodate_working/ and set static IP address for my pi-hole host to 192.168.1.100, I've configured my ethernet adapter to use pi-hole as my dns server (can't set it directly on my router because they've disable it through firmware).

It was working fine. Next day, I've noticed that I couldn't reach any page (not resolved). After changing my ethernet adapter to use cloudflare (1.1.1.1) it immediately started working.

I've tried different approaches like disabling DHCP server on my router and using pi-hole's to no avail.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Actual Behaviour:

can't reach/use pi-hole as dns server, although i've confirmed it works inside pi-hole's as a host.

Debug Token:

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

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Nevermind...

My problem was that on every restart pi-hole was recreating /etc/dnsmasq.d/SoftAp0 with wrong config.

After removing this file and recreating an empty file (sudo touch /etc/dnsmasq.d/SoftAp0) it started working as expected.

For comparison, here's my new debug log: https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/lIo2PmPW/

Greetings

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I don't think this is the case. We only touch our files in directory /etc/dnsmasq.d. Other files installed by others are not touched.

Something was touching that file, but it wasn't Pi-hole.

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Hi jfb, I'm saying pi-hole as my unit (I'm using BBB just for pi-hole) and not software :slight_smile:

Regards

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I suspect the Rasp AP software is changing that file.

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It was a script specific to Beaglebone Black that runs on every boot.

Had to set an empty file to override this.

All working as expected :wink:

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