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amenic
Apprentice
Sep 17, 2020

Intermittent DNS lookup failures on RBR850

Intermittent DNS lookup failures RBR850 I've been using the Orbi RBR850 for several months now and I'm constantly having issues with DNS that I've NEVER experienced with any other router I've ever u...
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Mstrbig
Master
Sep 23, 2020

OpenDNS, as well as most 3rd party DNS servers are not reliable, since so many people are working from home. So there may be your problem. You'd be better off using your own ISP's DNS servers as they are less used by the masses. I was using a combination of OpenDNS and Google, as well as tried speakeasy, 1,1,1,1, cloudflarenet, Level3 and more. I just ran a DNS benchmark and Open is was down the list as being slow right now. There's only so much bandwidth certain DNS servers can handle.