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sawitt76
Aspirant
Jan 16, 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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McLong
Luminary
Jan 17, 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.