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R8000 Router Ongoing DNS Issues
So the DNS resolution issues affecting the R8000 and seeminly other models are all over this forum. The last two firmware upadates (.74 and .76) are complete junk and completely break the DNS resolut...
mkrejci Did you enable IPv6?
If so and it doesn't work, please start your own thread so we can help you 1:1 and not confuse your info with the OP's.
plemans Yes, I read about turning on IPV6 and have tried it, so far so good, the problem seems to have gone away.
Thanks.
Just wanted to confirm that changing IPv6 to Auto Detect from Disabled seemed to fix the firmware/DNS issue I originally posted about last year. I've held my router at V1.0.4.68_10.1.75 for the last year since upgrading the firmware version brought on the intermittent DNS resolution issue that everyone else has noted. After changing IPv6 to Auto Detect, and then upgrading the firmware to V1.0.4.84_10.1.84, the DNS resolution issue seems resolved. No slowness, and no issues. My provider is Spectrum. I did not change the DNS resolution to 8.8.8.8 as others have mentioned.
Thanks for letting us know. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/24231/How-do-I-back-up-the-router-configuration-settings-on-my-Nighthawk-router
Enjoy. 📡
rgsneed wrote:
Just wanted to confirm that changing IPv6 to Auto Detect from Disabled seemed to fix the firmware/DNS issue I originally posted about last year. I've held my router at V1.0.4.68_10.1.75 for the last year since upgrading the firmware version brought on the intermittent DNS resolution issue that everyone else has noted. After changing IPv6 to Auto Detect, and then upgrading the firmware to V1.0.4.84_10.1.84, the DNS resolution issue seems resolved. No slowness, and no issues. My provider is Spectrum. I did not change the DNS resolution to 8.8.8.8 as others have mentioned.
Hi,
I tried switching to Auto Detect, with the same firmware.
It keeps selecting 6to4 Tunnel.
What did yours set to?
I use Optimum cable
I also tried setting Lan Setup use DHCP...it was on Auto Config.
No change so far...
I don't think optimum supports ipv6. So if ipv6 doesn't work, you might need to downgrade to get it working properly again.
Hi, thanks for the reply
I tried all the options/suggestions like disabling the IPV6.
I did noticed that some secure web pages, or regular web pages (banks and others) fail loading at first attempt.
Its better with IPV6 on, but not perfect.
I also note that Netflix fails usually the first attempt to connect from any of my Roku's or Samsung apps. If you stop and retry it works.
In both cases I wonder if they have load balancers out there that don't have all the correct DNS pointers (for either IPV6 or 4)
To confirm that idea, I did have some success fixing my host file with an DNS IP that works and it had some good results as well....but not 100%.
You would think Netgear would have solved this by now.
You'd think but I also doubt they have the resources dedicated to an 8 year old router (released in 2014).
