tag: lxc

In my previous post about my DNS, I mentioned there that I migrated Pihole from Unraid to my Proxmox hosting my router. But in fact, on top of that, I left an instance of Pihole on Unraid running inside a LXC container. Together with that I also configured keepalived for high availability. Hosting the DNS on the same hypervisor as my router should already be sufficient (I’d say my OPNsense VM is more likely to face issues than a LXC container) but I still wanted to try out an use case for keepalived....

Pihole as our local DNS at home has been working perfectly fine. It blocks almost every ad there is whenever I am browsing. I was initially running it as a docker container within my Unraid server. The problem is every time I would restart Unraid for some experimental work, the internet of the entire house also goes down momentarily. I already tried defining a secondary DNS on my DHCP server but noticed some of my devices would randomly pick a DNS if there are multiple defined....