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R9000, All DHCP clients are receiving the wrong DNS IP (The Router)
I have entered the IP address I want the LAN clients to use but all the wireless devices get 192.168.1.1 (the router). I can find no way to fix this.
This is the behavior for all NG routers. The proxy hands over the routers IP address, however when DNS get to the router and if you have different DNS configured, then it goes out thru those addresses. How it works on NG routers. Been like this for a LONG time. If that's not working for you then you'll need to find an alternative to NGs stock FW. Or find a different brand. One brand I know that users can disable this proxy and the router hands over what ever DNS is configured to any connected devices is D-Link routers. They call theres DNS Relay.
Thank you for your answer, you have confirmed what I have thought was the correct place to put the DNS entries and how it is supposed to then begin to use them.
However, it does not, it continues to use itself. No matter what I put in those fields. Thus, this request. Why is it refusing to use what I am asking it to and handing out it's own IP as a DNS server? And how do I stop it?
Everything that is using the wireless is receiving the router IP as the only DNS server. I have an internal LAN DNS server for my domain and I want them to use it, otherwise they cannot find my mail server.
NG uses a proxy DNS server of the router. You can't change or stop this. If you want your devices to use a different DNS service, you'll need to set this on each device.
The GUI leads me to believe that the IP's entered in it will be propagated as the DNS IPs to clients. And that is NOT true. As I find this to be unacceptable I think I will have to replace it with something that actually does work like it's supposed to. DD-wrt seems to be fully compatible. It's long since out of warranty so...
Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.
PK
There is also Voxel FW as well.
Enjoy.
- You will find that virtually all consumer-based routers use 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 as proxy for the configured DNS. None of them pass the DNS directly to clients.
