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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...
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::1002
And 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
FURRYe38 wrote:
From what I'm told, if you configure hard coded DNS on the RBR, then thats what will appear on the client devices.
This may be the case with certain models, but is clearly not the case with my aging RBR50. This is my IPv6 configuration:
I have hard coded IPv6 DNS servers, and Orbi DHCP gives my PC the Orbi local IP address for both IPv4 and IPv6 DNS.
Would be nice if someone can test another 850 router to see if does the same thing.
Was different on the older AC series. Orbi AX is newer and seem to be different this this regard.
Maybe FarmerBob1 can confirm this since he works with IPv6 and his ISP supports it.
Will have to see what NG is really supported for it's intended use.
In the past there have been impassioned pleas to have the Orbi behave almost exactly this way: Users wanted Orbi to specify specific DNS servers to DHCP clients rather than follow the (industry standard?) practice of acting as a DNS forwarder. Those requests were in terms of IPv4 DNS, which appears to continue to follow the previous practice in the 850, which provides actual DNS server IP addresses only for IPv6.
Pretty clear there is no common code base, not even for the most basic functions.
