Allowing Proxmox to use a Dynamic IP

I’ve discussed before , that when you first install Proxmox, it grabs an IP address from your DHCP server (this usually runs in your ISP modem if you haven’t created a better setup), but then it stores it as a static ip. This is a sort of compromise that makes sense and works for most circumstances.

As soon as I’ve provisioned a new Proxmox server, I then usually tell the DHCP server, to always serve that address to the MAC address of the new Proxmox server. Since Proxmox does not use the DHCP server on subsequent boots, all that really does is prevent the DHCP server give the same IP address out to another device - which had happened to me prompting the earlier post. The DHCP server had given the address to a wifi lightbulb while the server was off, then when the Proxmox server booted up, the netwrok access was all messed up.

No DNS on Proxmox machine

I had some more network weirdness setting up this new Proxmox machine. When I went to run the updates it couldn’t resolve any of the addresses:

root@pve-kr01:~# apt update
Err:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.au.debian.org'
Err:2 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve bullseye InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'download.proxmox.com'
Err:3 http://security.debian.org bullseye-security InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'security.debian.org'
Err:4 https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve bullseye InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'enterprise.proxmox.com'
Err:5 http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.au.debian.org'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.au.debian.org'
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'ftp.au.debian.org'
W: Failed to fetch http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/bullseye/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'download.proxmox.com'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/bullseye-security/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'security.debian.org'
W: Failed to fetch https://enterprise.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/bullseye/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'enterprise.proxmox.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

So some sort of DNS problem. The entry for the DNS is in /etc/resolv.conf when I looked in there, it said:

Proxmox Dynamic IP

I ran into a little hiccup today. I’m building out a Jellyfin media server in a little HP G2 Mini PC. The config was going to be a Debian server inside Proxmox (because I love VM snapshots for backups) running Jellyfin in a container. There’ll be an external USB3 hard drive for the media storage.

I was intending to build it all out and test it, then ship it to it’s final home.

Netgear GS108E switch problem

I had a weird issue today that I wouldn’t have known about if I didn’t have an over-engineered home network monitoring system.

I’ve got a new GS108E managed switch , purchased in anticipation of connecting a NAS to the homelab - I want to have a solid 1Gb connection between the NAS and the servers, and also in anticipation of moving to VLANs before I start to expose self-hosted services to the internet.