Additional DNS support

Absolutely!  This inflexibility hampers my ability to do my own DNS policing!  If I lose the 'feature' of an automated router login, I can simply type its IP address.

I've bought four routers after NighthawkNighthawk X6 R8000 and none of them are from the NEtgear due to the lack of this functionality. 

All other major vendors provides this option of using custom DNS servers. 

I regret not knowing this baout Netgear equipment before purcashing one for my mother-in-law.   The DNS feature on her brand new R6120 is introducing 15 seconds of latency for all new connection attempts - it's absurd, and I cannot turn this off.  I wish I could return it.

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DayHawkX6 
 The DNS feature on her brand new R6120 is introducing 15 seconds of latency for all new connection attempts

That sounds like rubbish.

You might do better to try fixing the problem rather than tagging on to the end of a completely inappropriate section and a discussion that almost certainly has nothing to do with your problem.

General WiFi Routers (Non-Nighthawk) - NETGEAR Communities

Don't expect much from the R6120 . It is a low spec device with LAN and WAN support limited to 100BASE-T (100 Mbps), the manual is  in saying 10BASEwrong-T) rather  the 1000BASEthan-T (1000 Mbps) of just about every other device on the market.

michaelkenward 

Your needlessly combative and toxic response is a shining example of the Netgear Community.

I'm showing my support for a software change and justifying my interest by describing a problem I'm experiencing with a piece of hardware purcahsed new from a retail establishment in the last 30 days.  Your "git gud" style bashing of this new netgear equipment in general seems amusingly out of place on community.netgear.com, and borders on being contradictory with your attempt to discredit my stated problem.  Pick a lane.  Is it that my problem is rubish or is it that the problem should be expected behavior because it's such a "low end" device?  Who do you want to disparriage more?

As for my specific circumstance.  This is new equipment running the latest available firmware and it's fair to assume it is "operating as designed".  My contention is that if I had the ability to change which DNS servers are provided in the DHCP response, I would be able to effortlessly work around this problem I am experiencing.

user@localhost:~$ time nslookup google.com 192.168.1.1 > /dev/null

real 0m15.413s
user 0m0.006s
sys 0m0.005s

user@localhost:~$ time nslookup google.com 4.2.2.2 > /dev/null

real 0m0.091s
user 0m0.023s
sys 0m0.013s

I'm using Adguard home over here. I can't identify the DNS client because of this. Please allow DHCP server to advertise a different custom option for DNS.

Then Netgear is acting like nothing isn't right to the individuals who really figure out how to contact Netgear support. While it has been plainly demonstrated. Once more: for the Orbi AX Pro Netgear fixed this identical issue a year prior. Notwithstanding, for its purchaser grade item they just couldn't care less. Read More Detail Zong Internet Packages

This has been open since March 2016...how do we get attention?

There is a small chance this thread might generate some interest to incorporate user-suggested features for future products. Or maybe even recently introduced products although doubtful. The company is small and risk adverse. I doubt they ever seriously consider new features on products that have already been released. And if they're like most tech firms, the sustaining engineering team is running well over 100% capcity just handling bug fixes and security patches. (Most consumer-facing tech firms seriously understaff  their sustaining/support and quality groups - sad but typical and prone to outsourcing). 

If there should arise a very highly requested feature, it has a better chance of making it into a future/new product. You can thank standard marketing 101 thinking for that - the mindset is to never give away value when you can charge for it.  Instead, you put the value proposition into your next/new product to incentivize your customer base to upgrade. IMO, all the lamenting in this thread about not being heard just isn't going to change the way these businesses are staffed to run. 

BTW the guy whose DNS lookups are taking 15s is clearly experiencing a bug/defect; that slow of a response is surely WAY outside the intended design parameters. Something there is amiss.  Disabling the local DNS caching and simply forwarding the DNS server IPs directly to each LAN client would certainly workaround that bug. So I can understand why the guy latched onto this thread.

5 Year and this is still not addressed.

Considering I'm working from home and rely on the ability to have a reliable Internet connection, the last thing I expected was to have a "high end" router be the issue.

Any word on this Netgear?