They were just lucky entrepreneurs.

Who also happened to have nothing against exploiting other people. You don’t get that rich unless exploitation is your business model. Or if you’re a nepo baby (something something small loan of a million dollars something something).

The bizarre thing is I already had it set up in a way it shouldn’t have hijacked it. Worked perfectly fine for a long time. Evil DNS forces at it again!

Pihole is my DNS server (Unbound + Local).

I fixed it? After the issue appeared I changed Raspi’s hostname to FQDN, i.e. pihole.my.domain. So it sort of makes sense that it bypassed Nginx. I changed it back to how it was before (just “pihole” and instead of my.domain I added “home.arpa” as local domain). And now it’s back to normal. Which makes about zero sense to me, because I basically just changed it back how it was both before and after the issue started.

Thanks for the help! It didn’t even occur to me to look if Nginx was being bypassed.

Hm, looks like you’re right. For some reason it’s completely bypassing Nginx. Traceroute to all my other proxied services points to nginx.my.domain, except pihole, which points to pihole.my.domain. There have been no changes to my configuration, this is odd.

Edit: Local DNS Record for pihole.my.domain still points to nginx.my.domain.

Whatever the reader is called now. It’s a known “feature”. They use Windows Installer patch system to update the application, but for some reason if it fails to update, it just re-downloads the patch without removing the failed ones. Or at least that’s my understanding. Allegedly (according to Adobe at least) it’s a rare bug, but I’ve had over a dozen machines from end users where this caused C partition to run full and slow down/freeze/crash the system. And I’m being serious when I say some machines regained over 30GB of space after uninstalling the reader.

Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it’s always unmistakably Adobe’s fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.