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IPv6 DNS not being handled by the route and instead clients being sent to the external servers
I have Cloudflare DNS configured at the router.
For IPv4 the router hands out its own IP for DNS (e.g. 192.168.1.1) and clients go to the router.
However, if I enable IPv6 at the router, it hands out Cloudflare's DNS servers and clients therefore go direct to Cloudflare.
Is this expected?
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Is this in reference to a Orbi system? What model?
Yeah sorry I should have said. Orbi RBK853.
FWIW, it seems to be the same for every device on my network even though my examples here are from macOS.
Here's my setup
You can see via dig that it uses the router for v4 and Cloudflare for v6
You can also see via various means the v4 IP is the router, but the v6 is Cloudflare
Also nothing has been manually configured on any device.
For example, this is from a windows machine:
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 2606:4700:4700::1112 2606:4700:4700::1002 192.168.1.1 2606:4700:4700::1112 2606:4700:4700::1002And this is from an iPad:
And how did you setup your cloud far DNS settings?
haruki_zaemon wrote:
I have Cloudflare DNS configured at the router.
However, if I enable IPv6 at the router, it hands out Cloudflare's DNS servers and clients therefore go direct to Cloudflare.
I have CloudFlare and Google DNS configured as the DNS servers on my Netgear RBR50 Orbi router. This is what a Windows 10 computer reports:
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : fe80::a204:60ff:fe1c:239%22 192.168.1.1 fe80::a204:60ff:fe1c:239%22Windows is using the router for DNS. (fe80: is a local IPv6 address, not a public IPv6 address.)
In the past, I have often played around with defining static DNS servers on the PC. Perhaps CloudFlare has been set on the computer?
I use PPPoE with a Tagged 201 VLAN on the WAN and I'm showing what I have set as the IP Address for IPv4; and the DNSs that I have set for IPv6. Not sure if depends on how you have to log into your service how DNSs are utilized. I'd love to test it out, but am locked into how much I can do with my login method.
But I will ask people that might know . . .
