Having a 2nd trustworthy router consumes extra energy, but maybe it's worth it. More than once my router made an update and silently disabled the pi-hole.
Having a fully configured spare pi-hole in a box also helps. Another time my pi-hole refused to boot after a power outage.
well, i completely agree. I'm the author of a couple of "how-to run ipcop / monowall in <hypervisor>" articles on broadbandreports. So of course, when i heard i can get real, honest to goodness, publicly routable ipv6 on starlink with a third party router, i set to making one in proxmox local, here. None of the "router distributions" worked correctly, if at all, and none of them that i tried had ipv6 settings anywhere.
So i went to best buy and bought 3 routers, and set each one up for 1 week. Turns out, you can get public routable ipv6 with a third party router, if the router supports ipv6.
I still see people mentioning opnsense and pfsense on here from time to time, and i wonder if i got the wrong - maybe outdated - iso images? I also tried doing it with freebsd and debian and couldn't figure it out, which is a bit depressing for me. I'll try again someday.
Having a fully configured spare pi-hole in a box also helps. Another time my pi-hole refused to boot after a power outage.