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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 ...
At this point in time, it's obvious Netgear doesn't care about this feature. It's been almost 3 years since this issue has been opened and we've yet to see Netgear acknowledge anything about it...
Move on, and do either of the following:
- Continue as it is and use the internal DNS forwarder.
- Disable DHCP server of the router and provide your own.
- Make request to open source the Hardware NAT translator drivers so that we can get the same performance on custom firmwares and use those instead.
I'm using Pi-Hole's DHCP server for the moment. I would rather use DD-WRT or OpenWRT to do it but routing performance on those firmwares were inferior compared to the stock firmware (last time I tried). I wasn't able to maintain a stable connection on full load.
I've learned from this experience and I will not be buying a Netgear device when it will be time for a refresh, that's for sure. I'm with all of you on this, a $200 device(at the time) should include such feature, especially when the device is targeted toward demanding customers.