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R8000 DNS fails first two hits then works.
This just started in the past week. It first looked like a connectivty problem, but on deeper diagnosis it was DNS and took a few days of struggling to figure out. When you go to a new site, the rou...
This is the most **** frustrating problem I have ever come across with Netgear. Same her with the R8000. Tried changing to 8.8.n and Google and still fails. VPN, still fails. It's actually disrupting my work. It is SO frustrating that Netgear haven't fixed this and won't even seem to acknowledge it. I'm about to dump the whole system (4 hard wired routers), just give uip and go to a mesh system (not Netgear).
DNS is one of the most basic services - I can't believe a professional networking company has cocked this up and not fixed it for multiple firmware releases.
I did wonder if it is that Armor service, but I'll have to trawl for how to turn that off - even you even can - it's not obvious.