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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 h...
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:
From what I'm told, if you configure hard coded DNS on the RBR, then thats what will appear on the client devices.
I wish my ISP supported IPv6. đ