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No, whatever entries are set in the 3 DNS settings, cloudflare DNS gets passed on to the client devices. You could use browserleaks DNS leak test in the Web to test the DNS servers that a client device is using, I see cloudflare DNS in that list along with my ISP DNS servers.
(I LOVE the Community Forum because every day there are "new things" that I knew nothing about....)
My PC Ethernet adapter clearly shows one DNS entry: 192.168.1.1 (the Netgear Orbi router)
The router is set to use Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and Google (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)
How does this DNS Leak Test claim that my web browser is resolving DNS using a bunch of different IP addresses?????
The edge DNS servers (8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1) passed on by the router DHCP get resolved to the actual DNS servers geographically closer to your IP location. Those DNS servers are revealed by the browserleaks tool.
This "makes no sense" to me, which is good in a way (because I LOVE learning new things).
My router does not "pass on" any DNS information to individual devices. It says, "for DNS, send queries to 192.168.1.1")
When I enable LAN/WAN capture on the router, the WAN capture shows DNS queries and responses from the router (public IP) to 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 but does not record anything else.
(It is late, and I am losing focus, so.....) I will attempt this again tomorrow.
So far, this Browser Leaks took remains a mystery.
My router does not "pass on" any DNS information to individual devices. It says, "for DNS, send queries to 192.168.1.1")
I've seen this done both ways. Some routers just pass on the gateway address, others pass on the DNS resolvers configured in the router.
Either way, the DNS requests going to the resolvers would all have the WAN address of the router, due to the NAT in the router.
Adding CloudFlare is likely ok for most users, but still I don't think Netgear should be adding DNS resolvers to what the user has configured.
Note this is more complicated than it used to be, since the major browsers all let you configure DoH (DNS over HTTPS) - and if you use that, the browser won't use the router's DNS.
How does this DNS Leak Test claim that my web browser is resolving DNS using a bunch of different IP addresses?????
The router is set to use Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and Google (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4)
Note the main goal of the tool is to let you know if the browser is using (or can use) your ISP's resolver. That is mostly a concern for folks who are using a VPN for privacy.
Are the IP addresses you are seeing in the tool are tagged as CloudFlare and Google?
