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Aaronao
Feb 22, 2022Aspirant
Can't Reach This Page
I updated to the recent firmware version V1.0.4.46_10.0.53 and now for some websites I get this 'Can't Reach This Page' message. I had this message show up when I tried to get to the Netgear Support...
microchip8
Feb 22, 2022Master
Have you tried different DNS servers? Like 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 for CloudFlare or 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for Google
- AaronaoFeb 22, 2022Aspirant
Hi - thank you for the response. Are you suggesting to change the DNS servers? I'm not that familiar with how the DNS works. Is that how the Netgear router sets the default DNS by using Google or CloudFlare? Thank you!
- microchip8Feb 23, 2022Master
Aaronao wrote:Hi - thank you for the response. Are you suggesting to change the DNS servers? I'm not that familiar with how the DNS works. Is that how the Netgear router sets the default DNS by using Google or CloudFlare? Thank you!
Yes, go to your Internet settings and choose "custom DNS" and enter the two values I provided above. DNS is a service that does lookup and translation of IP addresses into human readable hostnames (and reverse)