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Forcing Router DNS / Blocking Port 53 @ Clients
Having just upgraded to Orbi, trying to duplicate my configuration around forcing devices in my home to use the DNS defined manually in the router and not allowing individually connected clients to o...
Many thanks for checking. Just to be clear, on the previous Netgear router, when I had this service blocked (DNS) on this IP range (.2-.254), excluding only the router itself from the range (.1) and pointing all clients to the router (.1) for DNS resolution, everything worked/resolved just fine, and if a client tried to manually override their local DNS (which is the router at .1 issued via the router's DHCP), then nothing on the client would resolve correctly as the DNS traffic is blocked. Thanks.
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