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sawitt76
Aspirant
Jan 15, 2023
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RBR850 DNS Masquerade

I have a new RBR850 with fw V4.6.14.3_2.3.12. I have configured the DHCP dynamic address pool to be 192.168.1.50 thru 192.168.1.254. I'm using the address reservation feature to assign 'static' IP ad...
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    sawitt76
    Jan 23, 2023

    I installed the dnsmasq package on a linux server I have and relieved the Orbi of DHCP and DNS duties. Its working great, and I'm happy. 

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sawitt76
Aspirant
Jan 16, 2023

Thanks for the information, I was pretty sure the Orbi didn't support Masquerade, but thought I'd ask in case I was missing something. This is my first mesh router system and in the past I've always bought routers that would run OpenWRT so I've gotten a little spoiled. I'll probably set up a local DNS server then and be happy.

 

 

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McLong
Luminary
Jan 16, 2023
I've had good results running a pihole with FTL DNS resolver and Orbi 850 as router.
  • sawitt76's avatar
    sawitt76
    Aspirant
    Jan 23, 2023

    I installed the dnsmasq package on a linux server I have and relieved the Orbi of DHCP and DNS duties. Its working great, and I'm happy.