PiHole loses network connection when DHCP lease expires

[Matt]

@DL6ER

You should really configure a static IP for your Pi-hole! Everything else (especially relying on a lease itself) is unreliable and expected to fail (having said that, your Pi-hole cannot answer its own DHCP request).

I thought I had, but they appear to be getting overwritten somewhere. I entered a manual IP during the install of Pi-Hole, and did not touch any settings following that.

I thought I had a similar problem to this one: Install pi hole, add static ip, when it reboots the ip changes back to dhcp - #16 by deHakkelaar

So I edited /etc/network/interfaces, found eth0 was set to dhcp, so I changed it to manual, but the problem still persists

I'm out of time today to work on it, but it looks like the solution may be to set the static IP through /etc/network/interfaces, instead of trying to rely on dhcpcd to configure it

Thanks for your assistance