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owtluke
Feb 18, 2021Aspirant
Orbi Pro SRR60 router hijacking DNS queries
Network setup: 1 Orbi Pro SRR60 router + 3 SRS60 satellites PFSense firewall acting as DHCP server Pihole DNS server Before firmware upgrade: All clients (including the Orbi devices) are assi...
antinode
Feb 18, 2021Guru
> Upgraded to firmware 2.6.0.108. [...]
From?
> All clients (including the Orbi devices) are assigned the pihole
> server for DNS queries. Nothing has changed from a DHCP perspective.
Really? I know nothing, but I'd expect the DHCP server in a Netgear
router to offer itself as the DNS server for a DHCP client.
> The Orbi router is intercepting the DNS requests and resubmitting them
> itself on behalf of the client. [...]
I'd expect that (or something like that). The router needs to deal
with special names like "orbilogin.com". But the implementation of that
"feature" might have changed.
> [...] roll back the firmware to the previous version. [...]
Which was?