Set Up Issues

Attempted to set up a new PiHole for the first time tonight. Was unable to connect to pihole.local to view the UI after set up. Couldn't find a way around it and ended up reformatting my SD card. Now when attempting to ssh in to the Pi I get the below error

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@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @

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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!

Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!

It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.

The fingerprint for the ED25519 key sent by the remote host is

along with more that seems like personalized info. I can't figure out how to reset the key at all. Please help

Posted Mar 14, 2026, 3:10 AM UTC

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