I have been successfully deploying apps like PiHole, Sonarr, and Radarr until something went wrong with the deployment. The new apps I am deploying initially have ports, but in a bit, the ports disappear and the app is inaccessible through the browser. The pic below illustrates what I have explained…

My Pihole works precisely as you mentioned. I have stopped it currently as it is slowing down the web as well as not allowing some allowed sites to open. Pihole will block some sites by default - like if you are on Amazon and click on on a “sponsored” item. It’s likely going to be blocked. You …

[image] photogen3: Hi @Weedy - “Enable manual container attachment ON" how do I flip it on? When you made the bridge, the toggle is right there. [image] Also I agree with @NA9D , I don’t know why your tutorial had you NAT pihole but that should run on the host network at minimum. That said …

Correct - Run PiHole on your LAN. Do not NAT it. DNS uses UDP and UDP traffic does not traverse NAT interfaces very well…

Hi, After removing the container station and the virtual adapter. I searched the net and it seems Container Station is essential to installing pi-hole. So I installed the CS again and a virtual adapter was created: [Screenshot 2025-09-21 at 18.43.29] Also, another issue has crept up where I can …

Hi, @NA9D @Weedy Thank you so much for your response, staying at it with me. It looks like we may have a solution here. But I am going to ask you guys some really noob questions, please bear with me. Should I delete the virtual switch? If I do so, will I have to do a 3-second reset of the network…

You can’t delete the virtual switch. What you can do is move those items to be utilized by your main NIC. I don’t know how Portainer does it but it ContainerStation, you can set the network mode to bride and chose an IP address, etc. You can move your container network to the main LAN in Network …

[image] photogen3: Hi, After removing the container station and the virtual adapter. I searched the net and it seems Container Station is essential to installing pi-hole. So I installed the CS again and a virtual adapter was created: …snip… Does not work whether I use the basic or advanced mo…

@NA9D Thank you mate. I removed everything and went about as you guys asked and mostly everything is installing well. Things that were giving me trouble earlier are sorted. Thank you very much. Regards

Great news! Hopefully you get all your stuff working in whatever “container” app you want to use. Sorry I couldn’t help you more with Portainer. Just know nothing about it and how it sets up.

@NA9D I am not using Portainer as yet. I’ll get everything set up soon, as its all from scratch now. Thank you again for all your help. Will be back if I need more. Regards

If you already have SSH running and are comfortable with using the shell I highly suggest Arcane/dockage. CS is a nice UI but if you ever need to go to github because something broke during a version upgrade you are going to get stink eye from app devs. Also I wouldn’t automatically bridge all you…

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