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Massive DNS leak
Nighthawk AX5200/RAX48 wifi 6 router Windows 10 OS I have the nighthwalk up and running for a few days now. I also use a commercial vpn service. Just out of curiosity I checked the DNS leak wh...
Are you using IPv6?
Did you setup the IPv6 dns server if you're using that?
No I completely disabled IPv6 in nighthawk and windows OS (though I have my doubts). Did more investigation and was able to fix the dns leak.
The DHCP service for the LAN on my old router sets the DNS for clients from the WAN interface which is 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.0.1. So the clients get the ip from 192.168.1.x block and the DNS as 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. Nighthawk, on the other hand, uses its LAN interface IP as DNS server.
IP: 192.168.1.10
DNS Servers: 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.100
DHCP server: 192.168.1.100Default Gateway: 192.168.1.100
I manually set the NIC's DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 on windows 10 and no more DNS leak when using vpn and nighthawk router. I hope netgear give us the option to set DNS servers for the DHCP clients.
What happens if you use auto detected ISP DNS?
