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br200 DHCP DNS server configuration
Dear community, I have a BR200 with firmware 5.10.0.5. I have succesfully setup multiple vlan's and corresponding DHCP services it is all working nicely. However, the iPhone complain that the...
Hartelijk bedankt! Don't worry, Swiss German reader here - somewhat familiar with Dutch.
Figured out - these DNS privacy warning does come up along with this "Private Wi-Fi" random MAC enabled. Apple managed to bring a little bit of thier lost trust back: Appears they understand now the Private Wi-Fi along with their privacy concerns affect more "public" Wi-Fi.
On your home or business network, one would assume your legal and trusted users have nothing to hide. Disable this "Private WI-Fi" ***** for your wireless network name(s) in your very own network.
If you operate multiple SSIDs on your wireless network(s) - you don't want to deal with random MAC addresses e.g. on the DHCP MAC-IP reservation tables, and you might want to see what device is connected, instead if some un-named, DEV-xx-yy-zz one, appearing as a different device on each network. Don't you? Yes it's an additional step after connecting to the SSID: Set this "Private WI-Fi" to off for your own networks!
The small privacy enhancement isn't (in my opinion) worth operating DNSSec on a client (ok, small advantage) but initially invented for trusted zone transfers and the like. Your ISP does certainly nicely operate thier DNS, blocking risk and malware sites, filtering illegal sites as per the Dutch legal requirements, and much more.
Interesting though!
Indeed I have multiple SSD's and dito vlan's. For my "production" network I have now switched off "randomize MAC address" feature and I have reconnected to the SSID with the "compliant".
The complaint is still there I noticed. But I can imagine it takes some time for this warning to dissappear.
One thing I cannot explain at the moment, but this is not a netgear issue I guess, is that when I connect to one of my my other SSIDs the complaint is not there. The only differents between these 2 SSID's are that my production SSID has a WPA3 authentication and my IoT SSID has WPA2. For the rest is the configuration identical.
In my head this does not yet make sence :-) Any thoughs on this?
But still one question remains: how can I configure in the DHCP service the DNS server to be used? :-)
Haaino wrote:
One thing I cannot explain at the moment, but this is not a netgear issue I guess, is that when I connect to one of my my other SSIDs the complaint is not there. The only differents between these 2 SSID's are that my production SSID has a WPA3 authentication and my IoT SSID has WPA2.
Drop (forget) the network on your Apple mobile, and re-add it. Don't wory, your head is all fine!
Haaino wrote:
But still one question remains: how can I configure in the DHCP service the DNS server to be used? :-)
Again, one of these missing features on (as of writing) all Netgear routers. 8-(
Hi,
I re-joined my WiFi network and disabled the MAC randimiser.
Unfortunatly this did not resolve the warning. After a while my iPhone starting complaining about privacy again. Sigh.
if you have any other suggestions I could try??????
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