If pihole becomes unresponsive, one reason may be that the diskspace is full. The diskspace may become full from an excessively large pihole database and or /var/log entries. In a recent case, both were the cause. Stopping the services and truncating the logs in /var/log and deleting the database worked in this case. The following logs were large, but I…
Read More » There may be a time where you want to have a fresh dashboard without the stats and logs. A case maybe a misconfigured NIC that may dump millions of DNS queries into the logs. Yup I have seen this happen. Whenever you need to reset the pihole stats and logs that display on the /admin dashboard, the following options will…
Read More » Pi-Hole is the black hole for the internet. As of the most recent Pi-hole Version v2.13.2 with Web Interface Version v2.5.2, a local network should have the necessary tools, DNS and DHCP servers, to run successfully. With that said, what if you want custom DNS settings? I tried this approach successfully, so now one IP resolves to several domain names….
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