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RS500 Firmware Version 1.2.7.2 released
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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.
8.8.8.8 is the IP address of the edge DNS server closest to your location. The actual DNS servers sending the DNS responses might be in a different physical location. For example in my case 8.8.8.8 is in Seattle, but the actual Google DNS servers are in Oregon. The browserleaks tool shows the IP addresses of the actual physical DNS servers being used for DNS resolution by the browser.