Pi-hole alongside Storj node - Any potential problems?

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I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that I’ve been working on to host a Storj node, but I’m also interested in running Pi-hole alongside this to monitor my network traffic.

Would Pi-hole cause any issues with a Storj node on the same device, and would it be a better idea to run Pi-hole on a separate Pi? I am wondering if I would need to manually set the DNS server per device to point at Pi-hole, rather than have my router point at the Pi for the entire network, to avoid any sort of a bottleneck on Storj.

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As I understand it, Pi-hole isn’t CPU intensive (Depending on your average use) so it shouldn’t be a problem. I can’t speak to every configuration, but if we are talking a pretty average setup, it should be fine.

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Thank you for the info!

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Hi, I am also very interested in running pi hole (although on a different raspberry Pi. Did you have any problems regarding the DNS? Was it blocking any Storj data? Or did it run smoothly?

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Storj does not rely on dns outside of resolving a few Storj domains, that would be cached locally anyway.

I would pay no attention to this. Just use a dns server you normally use, (using the one provider supplies has its benefits but often comes with worse stability than CloudFlare, Google, or quad9)

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ok that’s good to know. I was planning on using OpenDNS. I really hope I won’t screw up Storj!

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DNS does matter a lot if you rely on DDNS to resolve your node (for example, if you have dynamic IP). Satellite will resolve and cache your node’s IP, and send it to customers, but because DDNS usually is configured with quite a short TTL, it will be querying your DDNS provider many times a day. If your DDNS provider is flaky, as many are, this will result in your node being unreachable.

So if you do use DDNS – pick a reliable one. (I use cloudflare and inadyn updater, hasn’t seen any issues so far.)

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I am given a static IP from my ISP so not using DDNS. I guess in that case I should be 100% safe?

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I have a pi-hole for dns too. No problem running 50+ nodes using ddns. For upstream dns I am using the one with the lowest latency, for my location this is google atm.