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Cracker
Jul 14, 2015Tutor
Network issue with ReadyNAS 312
Hi, Looking for a bit of help on this one. When I connect my 312 to an R7500 router it brings the whole network down, no internet access and to the point where a wireless device won't connect to th...
StephenB
Jul 16, 2015Guru - Experienced User
It depends on the router. Some pass along the DNS servers that they received from your ISP. Others act as a DNS proxy, and essentially become the DNS server for your home network.
Cracker wrote: ...and noticed that the DNS settings had just 192.168.1.1 in it, which works but i thought that would just have been regarded as the gateway and not DNS...
Yours apparently takes the latter approach (as do Netgear routers btw).
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