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    Pi-hole redundancy

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved DHCP and DNS
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      xman111
      last edited by xman111

      Hey guys, running Pi-hole in a VM on Unraid. Just wondering if there is a way to use it with PFsense but have DNS and internet still work if say the Pi-hole crashes, etc. I thought i had it working before but now it doesn't seem to be, but i may have been wrong. I have the DHCP server pointed to 192.168.10.125 (Pi-hole) for DNS and have the Pi-hole forwarding to 192.168.10.1 (PFsense). I have PFsense setup for resolving. Any help would be much appreciated.

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        YannTKO
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        Hi,
        If you put your pfsense IP as DNS server 2 in your DHCP server, it should work.

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          xman111
          last edited by xman111

          I may be wrong but i thought DNS doesn't work in order so it could ask either one depending on what the client decided to ask.

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