NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
RBR50/RBS50 DNS over Wifi always returning IP of Access Point
Have had a mesh setup with RBR50 router and 3 RBS50 satellites working for a while. Recently tho' the two MacBooks have started having problems with DNS over Wifi. All DNS requests seem to return the address of the satellite the device is connecting to. I know the Orbi satellites intercept DNS requests to let OrbiLogin.com etc work, but they seem to be doing this with every request.
It is completely reproducible. If I connect the MacBook to the router via an ethernet cable DNS lookup works fine. If I only connect via WiFi DNS lookups return the IP of the satellite I am connected to. It doesn't matter which DNS server the router is set to. I can even explicitly pass a DNS server IP to a `host` request and it still happens.
I have tried:
* rebooting everything (router, satellites and MacBooks).
* power cycling everything.
* updated all devices to 2.7.5.4 firmware.
At this point I have run out of ideas.
2 Replies
byebyeflyguy wrote:
Have had a mesh setup with RBR50 router and 3 RBS50 satellites working for a while. Recently tho' the two MacBooks have started having problems with DNS over Wifi.
Whenever anyone turns up here with a with a troublesome Apple device we send them here:
NETGEAR Mobile Applications and Apple Devices FAQ - NETGEAR Communities
It is the first thing to rule out before digging deeper.
Thanks, but the solution turned out to be stale access control entries. All new devices were getting blocked and so getting fake DNS returns. Had to clear out the lists of old devices and turn off access blocking at the router.
