Hy everyone, I have a PiHole instance running on my home server, and I changed my router (Fritz box) DNS in order to use my PiHole. Everything runs great.

I was wondering if I can put another DNS provider on my “alternative DNS server” in my router, in order to have a fallback alternative in case my server is down, or if I should avoid it.

I’m asking this because I don’t know if the request will be handled in parallel between the two DNS provider (that would make my PiHole useless) or not. Thank you.

  • Darkassassin07English
    10·
    9 months ago

    Don’t you then run into MAC conflicts?

    How do you keep both on the network?

    • HACKthePRISONS
      03·
      9 months ago

      I’m just spit balling here: backup pi pings munute-ly main pi. if main pi is down 2 pings, it resets Mac and reboots network interface.

      • Darkassassin07English
        10·
        9 months ago

        Then when the main PI returns it creates a conflict…

        • HACKthePRISONS
          02·
          9 months ago

          oh hm…

          hmmm

          ok. both pis know the live IP and the backup IP, and have the same config: cold boot into backup I and ping live ip