Pi.Hole stops, DNS restart is needed

My Pi-Hole is now up for a little over 2 weeks.

In those two weeks I restarted the DNS server twice because blocking seemed to have stopped.
It could also be that logging only stopped, but I haven't checked this.

The reason I noticed, is because suddenly it would say that no DNS queries were made all day in the dashboard.

Does this sound familiar to someone, and is there a good way to solve this?

Nope:

$ uptime
 00:57:07 up 47 days,  6:55,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00

$ pihole -v
::: Pi-hole version is v2.13.2 (Latest version is v2.13.2)
::: Web-Admin version is v2.5.2 (Latest version is v2.5.2)

You could check whats happening in the Pi-Hole logs:

less /var/log/pihole.log

Or the syslogs:

less /var/log/syslog

Or check the kernel ring buffer:

sudo dmesg | less

And you might be asked to create a debug token and post the token here "Debugging With A Medical Tricorder":

https://pi-hole.net/2017/02/10/how-to-contact-the-pi-hole-development-team-for-support/

We are all here and can help you :slight_smile:

Please so some digging using the commands @deHakkelaar suggested.

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