Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it?
Zagam@piefed.social 1 day agoEntirely possible. This is my second adventure into RPi and I have zero idea what I’m doing. I can not overstate how out of my depth I am in this. I have real expertise in several things, but this end of tech is not one of them.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Haha, I feel ya. Try logging into your router’s admin panel and see if you can disable DHCP from there, it might fix things. (Also be prepared to to set static IP on the device you connect to the panel from in case it has issues connecting if disabling DHCP doesn’t fix things or resetting your router to factory settings should also re-enable the router as the DHCP server again).
jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
DHCP != DNS. DHCP allows you to mix pseudo-static IP addresses with dynamic IP addresses on your LAN, while DNS looks up IP addresses based on names. DHCP, or the equivalent IP address management GUI, is innocuous… you probably want to use it to specify what static IP you want the Pi to have… but you also need to tell your router DHCP to inform your in-LAN devices that the DNS server they should use is that same static IP when it hands out their assigned IP address.