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DNS issues when using DHCP over WIFI on RBR50 with latest firmware as of 8/15/2020
So I have a workaround, but really surprised that the latest firmware release as of 8/15/2020 still doesn't address this issue or Feature Request... of basic DNS cfg via DHCP for LAN side clients ...
ajblack817 wrote:However, t if you let it control your DNS, it doesn't seem that the RBR50 forwards DNS requests to the Internet... therefore very poor web surfing performance.
Can you please provide some more explanation? My experience is that the Orbi acts just like every other router. It uses DHCP to point every LAN device to the router itself for DNS. The router caches DNS responses using the "time to live" setting. Any request that is not in the cache is forwarded to the DNS server identified in the Orbi configuration and the response added to the cache.
If the Orbi did not "forward DNS requests to the internet", then no device would ever connect to anything. Web browsing would not be slow. It would be non-existant.
Most computers do the same thing: cache DNS lookups and only do a DNS request if the subject is not found in the local cache. So there are two caches: device, then Orbi.