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XR500 and PI Hole configuration
I am looking for a way to use dnsmasq with the XR500. Or some way to have the pi hole software be able to report back what machines are actually doing the dns lookups. In most routers I have an optio...
bsilverthorn wrote:
This works sorta, but again it shows DNS requests coming from my netgear. Is there a way to have the XR500 send out 192.168.1.4 as a DNS server and note the lan IP?
Hi there. I have PiHole setup with the XR500. I just have the router do the DNS as I didn't see a way either to have it send DNS servers other than the router. Just curious, do you want to have it setup so that you see which hosts are doing which requests? If so, I'd just manually set the DNS servers on your OS and just get the IP/Netmask/Gateway from the DHCP server.
I've had the same issue - it is as if the XR500 "Use These DNS Servers" option doesn't work.
No matter what you put in there, it just pushes down the values it gathers from your ISP; you cannot override them.
Is this something that is in the channel to get fixed?
Thank you!
- Biggus, what happens after you set the DNS and apply? When it reloads the page has it switched back to dynamic or is it still on 'Use these...' but doing a DNS test it shows the ISP DNS?
The router appears to be configured properly, but what it delivers is the ISPs values to the devices.
