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Intermittent DNS Errors and WiFi Issues
I have had the Orbi AX6000 for a few months now. While there are many things I love about it (great wifi coverage, great speed, looks nice, software, ease of setup, etc.), there are two very frustra...
I, too am experiencing this DNS proxy/resolver/caching issue ever since Sunday, which was the first day of DST. I have DST enabled and using Netgear for NTP server. I turned off DST and changed the NTP to be time.windows.com to see if this helps. I've had this Orbi RBR40 now for about 2-3 years and have never had anything like this happen. Extremely frustrating that Netgear allows DHCP option 60 and 61 but nothing for a simple hand out of DNS server IPs. I even factory reset and that didn't help. My old Linksys allows me to specify DNS servers in DHCP!
Please visit and post about this over in the Orbi AC forum for your model Orbi:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/bd-p/Orbi
Others have mentioned doing a factory reset and changing NTP settings resolve this on the Orbi AC system:
Thank you.
ericd77 wrote:I, too am experiencing this DNS proxy/resolver/caching issue ever since Sunday, which was the first day of DST. I have DST enabled and using Netgear for NTP server. I turned off DST and changed the NTP to be time.windows.com to see if this helps. I've had this Orbi RBR40 now for about 2-3 years and have never had anything like this happen. Extremely frustrating that Netgear allows DHCP option 60 and 61 but nothing for a simple hand out of DNS server IPs. I even factory reset and that didn't help. My old Linksys allows me to specify DNS servers in DHCP!