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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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GTRdone wrote:On my RBR750....Costco edition (Tried inserting Model in above header but text disappears)
Results-after disabling the Armor anti-virus, disabling IPV6 in the computers and the Orbi, I am still experiencing intermittent page loading errors. In Firefox, I got several that read: "HMM We're having trouble finding that site".
Reloading the page is successful.
Thanks all for the feedback and for taking time to try to track this down.
Good advice, FURRYe38!
I followed the steps to enable ipv6: (pilfering some of the text in the links post, thanks to mstrbig:
login to orbilogin.com Advanced, Advanced, IPv6. I setup the following:
6to4 Tunnel, Remote 6to4 relay Router set to "Auto", IPv6 Domain Name Server (DNS) Address set to "Use These DNS Servers". I chose Cloudflare's IPv6 DNS Servers. IP Address Assignment set to "Auto". T
I tested using test-ipv6-com and it is now getting a score of 16. What I can't get past is this:
"Your router or firewall is filtering ICMPv6 messages sent to your computer. An IPv6 host that cannot receive ICMP messages may encounter problems like some web pages loading partially or not at all."
I am using Zonealarm free firewall and it is set to allow for ipv6 networking, but not sure why that message is being generated.
The bottom line, though, is that the original DNS issues are gone, no more 404 errors, or page load errors.