By cansurmeli
On my VPS, I was trying configure OpenVPN + PiHole. During the process I had to restart the networking. Afterwards the networking got broken and locked me out. Now I can only access my Droplet from the console in the Digital Ocean control panel.
Once I’m in, I can see that everything works as expected(Apache, SSH, Gitlab, etc.) but since my networking is down, nothing can be accessed from the outside.
I tracked down the root cause of the problem to broken eth0 settings. I don’t believe it’s a firewall issue. My IP and Netmask settings were broken. They were falsely changed by Pi-Hole. I tried fixing them but I still get the same error message I got before trying to fix my settings when I execute systemctl status network:
How should I proceed?
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The issue is handled after contacting Digital Ocean support staff and them handing me the correct configuration for my eth0.
For anyone trying to configure Pi-Hole or OpenVPN, better back-up your eth0 configuration before hand!
Hello, all
I would like to say that OpenVPN + Pihole is available as one-click install droplet in our Marketplace. You can find more information here:
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/openvpn-pihole#getting-started
You can also check out this short demo of configuring and setting everything up from an Android device.
API Creation
curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
'{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image":"pihole-18-04"}' \
"https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"
Regards, Alex
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