Hi there again guys,
I´m currently on one DietPi server running just Pihole + PiVPN (in order to block ads remotely when connected to my VPN and safely access my local server) + Letsencrypt (in order to acccess Pihole HTTPS admin remotely). This is running on Orange Pi Zero.
Since I will be having a spare Raspberry Pi 3 which has more RAM and CPU, I´m planning to use that one to install:
- Pihole (for a secondary DNS blocking)
- PiVPN (in order to block ads remotely when connected to my VPN and safely access my local server)
- Letsencrypt (to access Pihole and every other system web admin HTTPS remotely)
- Qbittorrent
- Syncthing
- Samba (for NAS server)
I was having some doubts regarding DNS and related stuff though. Since all these will be installed on my local network, would there be any issue at all? I have duckdns.org for my domain, and I was thinking, when I try to access for example my pihole admin at domain.duckdns.org/admin, will it redirect to my IP1/admin (my orange pi zero setup) or to my IP2/admin (the raspberry pi 3)?
Maybe there are more issues to take into account, but that one is certainly worrying me before hand.
Thanks as usual!
Regards,
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Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
Hi,
many thanks for your question. I don't think you need to double the software components in your network. It's totally fine to have Pihole + VPN + SSL running on your Orange Pi Zero. No need to install it as well on the RPi3. Even SSL would not be needed on your Orange Pi
You could do it as follow
Orange Pi
All systems in your network can use PiHole installed on Orange Pi. It's enough to have a single DNS server in your entire network.
many thanks for your question. I don't think you need to double the software components in your network. It's totally fine to have Pihole + VPN + SSL running on your Orange Pi Zero. No need to install it as well on the RPi3. Even SSL would not be needed on your Orange Pi

You could do it as follow
Orange Pi
- VPN
- PiHole
- Qbittorrent
- Syncthing
- Samba
All systems in your network can use PiHole installed on Orange Pi. It's enough to have a single DNS server in your entire network.
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Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
I will follow your advice then, thanks 

Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
I am running pihole on 2 dietpis in my lan. Doesn't hurt to do so.
Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
ok you could use it as secondary if primary is failing but that's not something I personally expect 

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Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
Right, I was thinking the secondary DNS server more for occasions on when you are installing/uninstalling/updating something, and pihole and other services are momentarily stopped.
Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
usually PiHole is not stopped during installation of software packages using DietPi. It might stop for a short period of time if you update PiHole themselves.
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Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
Under normal circumstances it should not be necessary, however if you have spare boards and install a second instance of Pihole, you have the failover if you want to experiment a bit and not worry about the complains from other users 

Re: Setting up 2 DietPi server systems on same local network
indeed, but my devices are in constant use for support cases 

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