Tag: pihole

pihole becomes unresponsive

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…

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pihole reset all stats

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…

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