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2 pihole instances 1 pi5 1 pi4 Keepalived provides vrrp at a set address.
Instances kept in sync via orbital
1 goes down the other takes over.
Quite elegantly.
Where do you do DHCP? I had a primary pihole with DHCP enabled and a secondary with a cron job that enabled DHCP if the primary was down or disabled it if the primary was working. The cron job did sync DHCP leases from one to the other but it was a bit janky. I tried to update the secondary to pihole v6 and hosed it so I have no backup for now. I'd like to re-image the secondary and get a better setup - when I have time.
Edit to say I really wanted to try keepalived - that's really cool to fail over without clients noticing.
On the router.
My router is locked down so i assign the vrrp address to wach client (pain in the ass) but it works.
Pivpn takes care or wireguard too.
Debian & ubuntu sudo apt install keepalived
sudo apt install libipset13
Configuration
Find your IP
ip a
edit your config
sudo nano /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf
First node
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
state MASTER
interface ens18
virtual_router_id 55
priority 150
advert_int 1
unicast_src_ip 192.168.30.31
unicast_peer {
192.168.30.32
}
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass C3P9K9gc
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.30.100/24
}
}
Second node
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
state BACKUP
interface ens18
virtual_router_id 55
priority 100
advert_int 1
unicast_src_ip 192.168.30.32
unicast_peer {
192.168.30.31
}
authentication {
auth_type PASS
auth_pass C3P9K9gc
}
virtual_ipaddress {
192.168.30.100/24
}
}
Start and enable the service
sudo systemctl enable --now keepalived.service
stopping the service
sudo systemctl stop keepalived.service
get the status
sudo systemctl status keepalived.service
Make sure to change ip and auth pass.
Enjoy