Cannot load Pihole admin or SSH to Firewalla after pihole installation
I recently purchased the Firewalla Blue Plus. Its currently set up in DHCP mode. I attempted to install Pi-hole on the device, following the instructions in the tutorial "Running Pi-hole on Firewalla Blue in 5 mins". Everything appeared to be successful. After the reboot of the Firewalla Box, I was able to get to the Pi-hole Admin with no issue. Within a few minutes, while navigating around (having made no setting changes), the admin page timed out. Additionally, when I tried to SSH to Firewalla, that also timed out. The only way I could get back in to ether the Pi-hole admin or SSH was to reboot the Firewalla box. I seem to be having no issues with the Firewalla App, but it doesnt seem to like Pi-hole very much.
Is there a log I should be looking at for further information? Im not entirely sure where to go next with this.
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Yes, its immediate. At the most, it occurs within an hour of rebooting the Firewalla. There's a note in the tutorial that mentions disk space being a potential issue, but I cant imagine running out of disk space that soon in the install process - especially with no configuration being done post install.
But I think I discovered what the issue is. I was connected to my work VPN at the time. When connected, Im unable to get to the Pi-hole admin or SSH to the box. As soon as I disconnected, its fine again. I only discovered this when I changed machines earlier this evening and decided to run a test to see if I was having the same issue. The thought of the VPN somehow being in conflict never crossed my mind. I even checked other adblockers I had running, which I thought i had off. Im just glad it was my own ineptitude that was the issue and not something weird.
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