NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Running a R8000 and Orbi RBR850 mesh set-up
Hi folks .. just looking for some advice. I have fibre and run a Nighthawk R8000 and Orbi RBR850 set-up and curious to hear what config I should best use.... it all performs pretty well other than I ...
Hi - Thanks for your reply.
It could be my misunderstanding, but I expected the DNS entry on my client machines to be what was specified on the R8000 (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) rather than just 192.168.1.1 (the IP of my R8000 and gateway). Would the R8000 just forward the DNS request to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 -- which kind of makes sense?
Random websites accessed from a Windows machine would time out ... when I manually add the 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 DNS servers the timeouts disappear.
Paul.
Yes. NG routers act as a DNS Proxy by relaying DNS from clients out to the detected ISP DNS or any custom DNS configured ON the router.
OK - thanks, so no need for me to manually change the clients if they have the NG IP address? just odd that it makes a difference on a Windows machine
Correct, all DNS flows thru the DNS proxy on the router. NG has never been known to offer a DNS option for this. Other router mfrs do like D-Link.
What is the difference your seeing on this Windows PC?
Typically a DNS error / address not found error - then a just refresh a couple of times and it then works OK. If I manually set the Windows 11 IP DNS entry to 8.8.8.8 then it works fine each time. Works great for the Mac and Linux clients, but not windows.