Pihole needs frequent rebooting after sometime

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Expected Behaviour:

PiHole should not need rebooting and should not block correct queries.

Actual Behaviour:

I need to frequently reboot my PiHole has it seems to fail to forward correct queries to the internet. For instance, google searches are blocked has well as accessing a website directly, but youtube videos, netflix, gaming or discord voice chat are not impacted.

I've done a bit of research but did not find anything. It's possible that the problem has been resolved somewhere else. I've run a debug command after rebooting the pi-hole. I'll try to provide a debug token the next time it fails if I can't find the issue.

Thanks in advance,

Debug Token:

https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/JMu8lJkp/

From your description, it isn't quite clear why Pi-hole would need a reboot.
Could you please elaborate why you have to consider rebooting?

Your debug log shows that your Pi-hole's host machine is running with two network interfaces enabled (eth0 as well as wlan0), while your Pi-hole as well as your router are configured for IP address associated with wlan0.
Note that certain OSs may shut down wifi when the machine goes into power saving, potentially temporarily cutting your network from DNS resolution.

Since a cabled connection is obviously available, it would be preferred if you'd configure both your Pi-hole and your router for that IP address (.61).

To do so for Pi-hole, you can run

pihole -r

and choose Reconfigure.

Hello Bucking_Horn, thanks for the tip. I did has you said and so far, 7 day later, no more issue.

Thanks,

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