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RAXE300 DNS failover failure — secondary DNS unreachable when primary fails
Product: NETGEAR Nighthawk RAXE300 (AXE7800) Firmware: V1.0.9.82_1 IPv6: Disabled Date tested: 11 October 2026 Hi all, I'm using a local dns as my primary and a remote (confirmed working) ...
I'm outside the support window so was hoping someone here can help or let me know if this is a known issue.
It would help to know more about these DNS servers.
Your conclusion does not match my experience (although my Netgear router is a different model). Rather than use the ISP resources, I have three DNS servers defined:
- Cloudflare (1.1.1.1)
- Google (8.8.8.8)
- Google (8.8.4.4)
My router has an option to
When packet capture is enabled and I use a web browser to open some random web pages (ford.com, honda.com, toyota.com), the DNS queries are captured. I then "save" the Debug Log and display the WAN port traffic using Wireshark. It is really clear that every time a DNS query is done,
- The router sends queries to all three DNS services at the same time.
- All three DNS services respond immediately (within a second. Google is a bit faster than Cloudflare)
Does the RAXE300 have a similar ability to capture traffic on the WAN port?
