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swansora
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Mar 17, 2021

RBR50 DNS Not responding in the last 2 days

The Orbi DNS Server has stoped responding periodicaly.  A reboot solves the issue for a couple of hours but then the issue reappears.  If I set the DNS servers manually on my machines to my ISP or th...
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CrimpOn
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Mar 17, 2021
swansora wrote:

The Orbi DNS Server has stoped responding periodicaly.  A reboot solves the issue for a couple of hours but then the issue reappears.  If I set the DNS servers manually on my machines to my ISP or the Google public DNS (vs 192.168.1.1 the orbi) the issue is resolved.  There has been no notable change recently.  Added 3 deviced over a week ago but issue only surfaced two days ago.  Any thoughts?  I am on the latest FW 2.7.2.104.

There are several extensive discussions about this issue.  Mine was doing the same thing, but has now stabilized (23 hours without a reboot). Check out this post:

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Orbi-DNS-and-DHCP-and-NTP-Broken/m-p/2071293#M116749 

 

Is it still happening?