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Netgear R6220 - Disable DNS Relay
Hi, I'm using a R6220 in my home network. I'm using even a RaspberryPi with PiHole installed in it, so I can block ads and some other domains that reduce my band (60mbps fttc). Now, I've found out t...
mikedag wrote:
It tretunrs a RATE_LIMIT error (screenshot below).
In other netrwork I've seen DHCP servers telling clients the DNS ip and then clients machine doing queries directly to that ip,----that's literally what the router is doing. Its tellin the client the DNS server address to send it to. not passing trought the router...
I ran into that "rate issue" a while ago but don't remember what it was related to. Its not the router causing it.
I'd check on the pi-hole forums.
It's related to the default pi-hole conf, that limit queries from the same ip (like 10.000 queries) per minute.
Pi-hole in this moment is receiving dns queries from the router and not from clients. So for him is only one client that is doing all these queries, and not effectively all single user by themselfs.
So it's called DNS relay...