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When Pi-hole is down? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by machinin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have an asus router with a pi-hole on the network.

I was doing some work on my server and noticed that when pi-hole was down, I couldn't access the internet. I was looking for some ideas online how to deal with this, but they said to have a second pihole on the network in case one is offline. Is that the only way to do it? Is there any way to have the network go back to normal if the pihole is offline?

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[–] B0rax@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If what you said was true, my secondary Pi-hole wouldn’t have to respond to any queries. But it in fact gets quite a lot of them. As the other poster has said, it is about 80/20 for 1st and 2nd pihole. Sometimes the ratios are different, depending on the time of day (don’t ask me why….).