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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 ...
Just to pile on, I think this is a pretty basic feature and reasonable request. There are a growing number of users who are savvy enough to want to run their own dns servers for a number of reasons. PiHole being a popular option these days. I don't particularly want to run dhcp server in order to get this capability as I find it nicer to have things like the reservations presented in the router UI.
But on a related note, the default config set on the router for it's dnsmasq seems a bit strange. Even a modest cache would produce measurable improvements in web browsing activity.
So basically this feature would enable 3 things for me.
1. The ability to filter and blacklist unwanted hosts (Basically Pi-Hole)
2. The ability to decrease resolution latency by enabling a local cache.
3. The ability to provide lookups for local LAN systems by intercepting DNS requests and rewriting them myself (much like the orbie does for orbilogin.com)
It's not a big ask here, the plumbing is already in place for you to provide these features since you are using dnsmasq already to provide dhcp/dns on the router. We probably aren't asking more than an afternoon of development time and I would guess you probably have people on staff who have toyed with the idea or have personal builds that allow for this type of override.