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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 ...
HTBruceM To my knowledge the dnsmasq config isn't configued to speed-up or cache anything ... see "cache-size=0" ...
But to make it worse - and on the R9000/R8900 this was removed a while ago as we spent a lot of time dealing with Netgear - was the "try-all-ns" config ... an option no longer in dnsmasq config and docs for years (if not a decade). What it does enforce is fatal: Every request will be sent to all the typically up to three ISP or Internet connection configued DNS IPs and not come back with a valid answer before all DNS servers have replied. Complete silly. And I'm convinced this nonsense is still in place on many Netgear router models (Cxxxx, Dxxxx, Rxxxx, Nighthawk, Orbi, whatever).
As a side effect, it does make dnsmasq return a wrong status code if a domain can't be resolved.
root@R9000:/etc# cat dnsmasq.conf # filter what we send upstream domain-needed bogus-priv localise-queries no-negcache cache-size=0 no-hosts try-all-ns root@R9000:/etc#
Everything explained up and down in the community already - trouble is this information has't made it as a mandatory design change to ALL Netgear products AbhayB
PS. Yes, agree I don't understand a **bleep** - I'm pissed about the attitude of some [other] users here.