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OHMike
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Jul 11, 2026
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New Idea

Allow Custom DHCP Settings

My Orbi 770 mesh was not cheap. In fact, it was expensive.  I purchased it right after it was released.

 

I use pi-hole to block ads AND manage local DNS. The problem is that the Orbi's DNS proxy will not forward the unqualified or ".local" qualified names internally to my pi-hole server. In addition, I have had some intermittently flaky behavior on resolving some DNS names, specifically Docker Hub.

 

I have tried multiple workarounds, nothing works. Please don't tell me to manually manage my DNS configurations on all of my clients. That's unreasonable. Please don't tell me to offload my DHCP to my pi-hole node. I don't want to mess with needing to stand up a DHCP node for my guest network.

 

This should be simple enough. Why, oh why, can there not be an advanced config option to manually adjust the client parameters provided by the Orbi DHCP server? Have a checkbox that allows you to go in and directly change the primary and secondary DNS servers. It seems straight-forward to me; but I admit I don't have to manage the firmware code base. If it is too much, please tell me with a reasonable explanation as to why that is the case.

 

Please consider my request. I know there are others Orbi users out there in the same boat.

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