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AX3000 Manual DNS setting not taking effect
Good morning everyone. I am using a AX3000 as my main internal router with a AX2400 as a repeater for my downstairs basement. This setup has worked perfectly fine but something I found out the other ...
Alas, you are caught in "the way things work". All residential WiFi routers operate by using DHCP to inform devices that the router itself is the appropriate DNS server. The DNS setting feature informs the router which DNS authority it should use to resolve URLs.
A common work-around is to install a separate DHCP server. The trick there is to find a DHCP server that can be set to do what you want. (i.e. offer specific DNS servers rather than itself. I just checked one common DHCP server, Pi-hole, and it operates the same way as the Orbi router.)
Alas, you are caught in "the way things work". All residential WiFi routers operate by using DHCP to inform devices that the router itself is the appropriate DNS server. The DNS setting feature informs the router which DNS authority it should use to resolve URLs.
A common work-around is to install a separate DHCP server. The trick there is to find a DHCP server that can be set to do what you want. (i.e. offer specific DNS servers rather than itself. I just checked one common DHCP server, Pi-hole, and it operates the same way as the Orbi router.)
Yeah I was trying Pi-hole on my server but I couldn't ever get the router itself to push dns traffic to it but now I think it was because I was running it as a container on a windows server so it doesn't bind with the real nic and maybe that could potentially cause the hiccup. Going to try a rasp-pi device and setup a dhcp server on that as well as a dns server. You think that would be ideal?