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Two requests: Add an option to toggle whether the router advertises its own IP address as a DNS server. Advanced users don't need routerlogin.net. Allow a private IP address to be specified as a ...
Correct, the only way I was able to get around this was to install a separate DHCP Server inside my network. But this breaks parental control and the device block that is featured in the app.
It's not hard to do, specify another device as DNS server, or use alternate DNS Server for a DHCP table.
@ schumaku, I agree with Chri, you don't understand the issue. There are numerous issues with security, and performance issues directly correlated to utilizing the Router as the DNS provider. Parental Controls, centralized Network-based anti-malware, and ad-block filtering. There are quite a bit more things that live off of DNS. I understand your frustration and comment of "over-smart ISP people", but some of us would like to tweak a $200+ product to meet our needs when the old $50 devices had this capability. It's ok if you don't understand, the engineers hopefully do and possibly they can provide a capability so the geeks can continue to use these SOHO devices and not have to migrate to another brand.