I've been running unraid for several years without too many issues. Recently, I started playing with pihole and changed my dns setting on my unifi router. Everythign was working fine for a couple of days. I had to restart my unraid rig and now it doesn't seem to be working as expected. I can access unraid if I connect a monitor to the machine. However, over my network, I can't get to it. All my dockers seem to be running fine and everythign else seems to be working. I tried clearing my browser cache  but no matter what I do, I can't seem to get to it from any other computer unless I go through unraid.net. Any ideas what I could check?

Try reverting network settings to defaults, if that doesn't help connect the server directly to the router bypassing pihole.

I've reset my router dns settings bypassing pihole and that didn't help. How do I go about reverting network settings to default?  I've tried everything else I can think of. It's so weird that everything works, but I can't connect via the browser on my own lan.

@JorgeBI posted above some things that I tried....however, I just thought of somethign else that could have contributed to the problem. I have an oboard nic and a 10gb nic via PCIe.  I had disabled the onboard nic for a long time, but had been thinking about redundancy and turned it back on via the bios.  I've since turned it back off....but not sure if that boogered up something.  I did some reading and it looks like I need to delete my network.config file? If so, where do I find that?

@JorgeBI think I may have sorted it out finally. I'm embarrassed to say that it appears to have been a cache issue.  Seems to be working now.

 

On a separate note, what is the proper way to setup two nics. I want my 10gb to be my primary, but I'd like the onboard 2.5gb to be there as a backup if needed.

You can create a bond, but it may limit the speed to that of the slower NIC, so good to test.

Understood. Thank you Jorge.  I think I'll just leave it alone as it doesn't seem worth the hassle at this point.  I really appreciate you taking the time to help.

 

 

well @JorgeB my problem has returned this evening. I got home from work and tried to access unraid again, and it's doing the same as earlier. where I can access via unraid connect, but not within my own network. It seems like a dns issue, but I'm not sure where to look to resolve. Any other suggestions? Sorry for the hassle again.

Can you access by the IP address when this happens?

Actually your question made me think about something......when I enter the IP address (even locally), it tries to redirect to the unraid.net address used for "connect". I went into "manage access" and removed the unraid connect association, rebooted. And then I could access it from the ip address as expected. But then obviously connect wouldn't work. So, then I signed in to unraid connect again and rebooted one more time. Now everything seems to be doing what it's supposed to again. Maybe through the DNS changes I made with pihole etc.....I broke some connection somehow. In any case, it appears to be sorted now.  Thanks again for your help. You may feel like you didn't do much, but your simple question put me on the path. Thanks Jorge!!